New Jewish Books
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner calls on the voices of his father and grandfather to weave a powerful story about the enduring challenge of holding a family together in the face of an...
The Modern Jewish Experience Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among...
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam...
The Modern Jewish Experience Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner...
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan...
To those around me—my friends, my colleagues, even my daughter—I appear normal, but in one very fundamental way, I am not. The old me left with my wife. I’m not sure who this new...
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine Jews of Eastern Europe An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the...
From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South. “A...
My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America From one of the central figures in Buddhism’s introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one’s...
