New Jewish Books
Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and...
From an acclaimed historian, the definitive story of the Venetian Ghetto and the emergence of modern antisemitism.In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatred, the world’s first Jewish...
A History: Postwar Life, Hopes, and Fears, 1945–1953, Volume 4 Offers a compelling account of how Soviet Jews rebuilt their lives amid postwar devastation, rising hostility, discrimination and the repressive final years of Stalin’s...
The dramatic true story of the heroic rescue of Allied resistance fighters from a Nazi prison train after a devastating betrayal. In the final hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans...
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the...
Translated by Jarosław GarlińskiEdited by David Engel The haunting wartime diary of a Jewish policeman and his tragic fate. Calek Perechodnik (1916–1944), a Polish Jew from the town of Otwock near Warsaw, found himself...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Emotions and emotional life have come to assume an important place in the study of religion and the humanities, but little attention has yet been given to considering...
Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Veil to memory activist Sabine Zlatin, who shaped the production of...
New York City, East Village, 1984. A young woman with the power to see the ghosts of her friends is haunted by the one who refuses to return—a dazzling, big-hearted debut of friendship and...
Passion and Power is about the life and career of Harriet Newman Cohen, one of the nation’s most celebrated divorce attorneys, as she navigated the male-dominated legal world from the 1970s to today. This sweeping...
