New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Laura Barella Each night when she says her prayers, Rebecca thinks of her Papa who lost a hand while fighting in President Lincoln’s war. He still believes the war was righteous: “We Jews,...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Hasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis, upheaval, and renewal, it remains a...
The Story of a Holocaust Survivor and His Unbreakable Spirit Immerse yourself in the poignant and inspiring pages of Robert ‘Bolek’ Becker’s The Little General. This extraordinary memoir transcends the ordinary, offering a deeply...
Tradition in an Untraditional Age, first published in 1990, explores the challenges of secularisation, assimilation and antisemitism, through analyses of thinkers including R. Samson Raphael Hirsch, R. Moses Sofer, R. Abraham Isaac Kook, R....
Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine The Modern Jewish Experience Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life in Ukraine’s port city of...
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII Luba is born into a poor Jewish family in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She provides a unique lens into a now vanished world, as she describes her childhood in...
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...
