Category: New Books

Solimeos by Rhoda Lerman

Solimeos by Rhoda Lerman

Fleeing post-World War II Germany, an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new, occult-obsessed, German Reich…but love, ambition, and vengeance interfere....

The Jews of Sum­mer by San­dra Fox

The Jews of Sum­mer by San­dra Fox

Sum­mer Camp and Jew­ish Cul­ture in Post­war America Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they...

Jews, Judaism, and Success by Robert Eisen

Jews, Judaism, and Success by Robert Eisen

How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful...

Yiddish Transformed by Nathan Cohen

Yiddish Transformed by Nathan Cohen

Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914 As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began...

My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar

My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar

The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Hardcover In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck...

The Dissident by Paul Goldberg

The Dissident by Paul Goldberg

A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men,...