The Coat by April Grunspan
Seth Feinberg, in spite of being an atheist, has always seen life through a Jewish lens. Inheriting a Nazi officer’s full- length leather coat from his Holocaust-survivor grandfather motivates him to research and write...
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The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
In this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish...
Defenders of the Faith: Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy and Reform by Judith Bleich
The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity, creating a chasm that few believed could be bridged. Unsurprisingly, the emergence of modern traditionalism was fraught with...
Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres
Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and...
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustova
Translator: Julie Jones The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the...
Eve and All the Wrong Men by Aviya Kushner
“In the bitingly clever yet poignant Eve and All the Wrong Men, Aviya Kushner reimagines the Genesis story with Eve as an empowered woman and Adam as “The First Wrong Man” in a string of...
As I Was Burying Comrade Stalin: My Life Becoming a Jewish Dissident by Arkady Polishchuk
Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin’s Russia, in the turbulent times before, during and after World War II. His love for the Soviet dictator persisted for years until Polishchuk, a 19-year-old Jew, was...
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s grappling with...
Blood Memory by Gail Newman
Poetry. Jewish Studies. “Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those...
Never to Be Forgotten: A Young Girl’s Holocaust Memoir by Beatrice Muchman
Muchman was born in Berlin in 1933. In March 1939, she, her parents, and four relatives fled to Brussels to escape the Nazi regime. In 1942, Germany occupied Belgium, and Muchman’s parents brought her...
