New Jewish Books
A young girl forms a special connection to the modernist painter Florine Stettheimer, and imagines herself joining in on Florine’s exciting life. When a young girl visits the museum, she finds an unexpected friend...
“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?” In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned...
Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk PrizeShortlisted for the Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Jews have been active participants in shaping the...
Translator: Rachel Mines With his intense, quickfire psychological fiction and consistent portrayal of characters’ subconscious minds, Jonah Rosenfeld is a standout among Yiddish authors of the early twentieth century. In his dedication to observing...
Principles and Pressures The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from...
Translator: Haim Watzman A magisterial biography of Israel’s first president. In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first...
Jews in Eastern Europe In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning...
The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan....
Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and...
An Exuberant Discovery of Sephardic Food, Family, and Faith What happens when the nice Jewish boy you end up marrying comes not from New York but from Casablanca? Who considers chicken soup little more...
