New Jewish Books
The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of “a life that comes out of chaos.” At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization For Louis Jacobs, the quest―the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith―was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by...
Before World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenné, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to...
A secret society, magical chicken soup, and a young girl who is wise beyond her years. This is the latest stand-alone novel in Izzy Abrahmson’s Village Life series. When Rachel Cohen is born, her...
A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for...
Set half in Israel and half in the United States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor...
Illustrator: Jeremy Wolfe Kivett In 2,000 Miles To Freedom, we follow the harrowing journey of Hyman Robbins, a man of immense courage and morality. Leaving his small Ukrainian village of Skvira in 1907, Hyman...
A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice...
Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev Perspectives on Israel Studies Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel’s policy toward Bedouin...
Illustrator: Amanda Quartey When Althea Gibson first dreamed of joining the big American tennis leagues, she was denied because she was Black. Angela Buxton dreamed of joining the best tennis clubs in Britain, but...
