A Boy from Baghdad by Miriam Halahmy
“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...
Category: New Books
Reading Herzl in Beirut by Jonathan Marc Gribetz
The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese...
The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America by Joseph Cohen
A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences Introduction: Kenyon Zimmer Translator: Esther Dolgoff Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism. Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe once comprised the largest segment of the anarchist...
Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...
Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media by Brahim El Guabli, Mostafa Hussein (Editors)
This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last twenty years,...
Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and...
Inseparable: A Holocaust Survival Story by Faris Cassell
See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children. Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a...
How the West Became Antisemitic by Ivan G. Marcus
Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500 An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in...
Let Me Try Again by Matthew Davis
A Romantic Tragicomedy of Faith, Family, and Folly Ross, twenty-three, isn’t nearly as clever as he thinks he is. His brilliant idea to break up with his girlfriend, Lora Liamant, in an attempt to...
Opening Doors by Hasia R. Diner
The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various...
