New Jewish Books
Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz―the Jewish communities in northern France,...
A shadow stalks the streets of Jerusalem. His silence is deadly. His mark is divine. While Jerusalem braces for Passover, a chilling series of murders begins. Each victim is mutilated—marked on the forehead with...
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...
