New Jewish Books
September 1945.Auschwitz survivor Simon Mendelevski, penniless and unkempt, returns to Amsterdam in a desperate search for his family, friends and neighbours. Simon meets two Dutch women, both of whom have also suffered. One, known...
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known? Hidden Heretics tells the fascinating, often...
Morah Rochel has been reading Jewish stories aloud, with permission from the author/publisher, on YouTube for the last few weeks. Check out her channel on YouTube and her latest (Just Right : The Story...
A rare glimpse behind the scenes of one of Judaism’s oldest rituals Ella Kanner grew up as a secular Jew until age 18. Today she is Orthodox, with insight into both sides of the...
Translator: Natasha Lehrer Along the French Riviera in the early 1900s, an illustrious family in thrall to classical antiquity builds a fabulous villa―a replica of a Greek palace, complete with marble columns and frescoes...
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) was one of the most creative and influential Jewish spiritual teachers in the late twentieth-century. Reb Zalman (as he is known) made several distinctive and lasting contributions to Jewish and...
Where there is family, there is hope In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholster from Vienna, and his sixteen-year-old son Fritz are arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Germany. Imprisoned in the Buchenwald...
Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work...
Editors: Gwynn Kessler, Naomi Koltun-Fromm An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various...
Narrator: Dan SchlossbergForeword: Marty Appel On April 6, 1973, Ron Blomberg took a swing at home plate that changed baseball history. Through a quirk of fate the young Jewish Yankee became the first designated...
