New Jewish Books
Jewish voting is distinctive and paradoxical. Stereotypes about the voting habits of American Jews include that they vote at unusually high levels, that they’re liberal, that they vote for Democratic candidates without regard to...
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year, this is the definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake serving grandmother who became the fourth prime...
Here is the list of the 84 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Editors: Ariel Evan Mayse, Sam Berrin Shonkoff Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion,...
A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngart—about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it...
In May 1960, Israeli agents captured Adolf Eichmann, who had played a central role in the Nazi plan to annihilate six million European Jews, and brought him to Israel to stand trial. In The Hunt...
An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York’s oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning New York City’s Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent...
Modern Jewish History Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons,...
Rabbi Angel draws on his memories and the lessons he learned growing up in the Sephardic community of Seattle, Washington. While offering anecdotes about the immigrant generation, the book outlines the generational transitions of the...
When Rachel Meyer, a thirtysomething foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent...
