New Jewish Books
In the heart-wrenching sequel to The Sins on Their Bones, The Lure of Their Graves forces Dimitri and Vasily to confront old ghosts and a new threat: political enemies-turned-suitors, all coveting Dimitri’s throne and...
Leon Bibel (1913–1995) was a prolific modern American artist who painted, printed, stamped, etched, sketched, and carved. He produced pieces that ranged from social realism to dreamy expressionism and was an aesthetic experimentalist, never...
German Occupation, Vichy, and Truth Jews, Judaism, and the Arts This book examines fiction and film narratives that show the active collaboration of the Vichy government with the Nazis in the deportation and murder...
Mitzvah, an act of Kindness. Repentance, to amend for one’s transgressions. The Fischers, a prominent St. Louis family, take in a German refugee after the conclusion of World War II. The arrival of Magda...
A hilarious, moving memoir by Argentine-American comedian Tamara Yajia about growing up between two worlds. From the day she was born, Tamara Yajia entered the world on a wave of absurdity. She was the...
Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration discusses the Holocaust in Kyiv and the efforts to memorialize the Babyn Yar massacre. Babyn Yar is one of the largest Holocaust sites...
Set during the Holocaust, Violin is a haunting and lyrical exploration of love, loss, and survival. This is Chava’s story—a young Jewish girl whose innocence is shattered by the rise of the Nazi regime....
The Ship to America is a work of fiction based on the experiences of an extended Russian Jewish family fleeing oppression in Ukraine during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Seventeen-year-old Dave...
A life-long commitment to social evolution – and, occasionally, revolution – animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort’s debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort’s peripatetic poems reflect...
Games of Inheritance explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual...
