New Jewish Books
A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes....
Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the “tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir” (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother’s life, told in reverse order from burial to...
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before...
Illustrated by Ariel Olivetti Josh Gad and the Berkowitz Brothers team up with legendary artist Ariel Olivetti for a thrilling graphic novel of Jewish folklore and magic. The Writer plunges readers into the captivating...
Modern Jewish History Combining diaspora studies and ethnomusicology, The Sound of Exile examines how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai. From...
The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her...
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies The patriarch Jacob functions as the main character in Jubilees, one of the most important early Jewish texts outside the Bible. This study investigates two important connections made by...
A clear, approachable guide to the world of sesame, from halva, tahini, and sesame oil, to togarashi, gomasio and furikake, with 80+ vegetarian-forward recipes, from the founder of popular tahini outfit Seed+Mill in New...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The...
A sweeping historical novel of identity, memory and belonging – across Zanzibar, London, and Jerusalem A richly woven novel about memory, identity, and the tangled threads of family across continents and generations. Ashi has...
