New Jewish Books
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding, even as her family scrambles to prepare for...
A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents...
Translator: Donna Spruijt-Metz Jewish Poetry Project Wu Wei Eats an Egg introduces fascinating Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch. Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and...
The father of a modern orthodox Jewish family works as a compliance officer at a bank in New York. When he discovers that his bank is violating OFAC laws and funding terrorists in the...
Translator: Joanna Chen An award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction An Israeli woman...
Samantha Klein never fit the mold. With ADHD, dyslexia, and a knack for zoning out during class, she was always the “distracted” girl at her Orthodox Jewish high school in Cleveland. But everything changes...
Translator: Jessica Cohen After emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing an annual letter on the Jewish new year to her old friends from a...
Translator: Clarissa Botsford From the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history Shlomo Libowitz and Anton Epstein, two...
Rebecca and Ari are on a mission to make the world a better place! Join these curious twins as they embark on a Tikkun Olam scavenger hunt, discovering fourteen simple acts of kindness-from helping...
Translator: Frances Riddle A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires. An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the...
