New Jewish Books
A gripping, diary style, middle grade novel set in WW2 Occupied Paris Silence was supposed to keep me — and my secrets — safe.So I accidentally became a spy… I was just supposed to...
This book begins where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. I WANTED TO BE WONDERFUL follows the lives of two women in their first years of marriage and motherhood....
In this heartfelt follow-up to her critically acclaimed novel The Things We Miss, Leah Stecher explores the pressure of living up to perfection. When Evie Steinberg’s family moves right before seventh grade, she promises...
A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late ThoughtTranslator: Batya Stein Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Dov Schwartz’s The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late Thought explores the later thought...
The powerful story of antisemitism in America and how it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries. Jews experienced antisemitism the moment they landed on what would become the United States....
Illustrator: Racheli David Rabbi Chiya Bar Abba left Bavel while young to study under Rabbi Yochanan in Tiberias. Due to extreme poverty, he moved a great deal and gave lectures from town to town, and due to his piety,...
An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming...
Living in the Liminal Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls is the first book-length study to examine Qumran religious experience through the lens of liminality in order to better understand what...
Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery, and Migration of Nazi Uprooted Art Written by a Holocaust survivor whose family collected art, Plunder and Survival tells the stories of principal figures, events, and artworks that contribute...
After a meet-disaster, a podcaster and her producer fall in love over email without realizing they know (and hate) each other in real life. When high school librarian Yael’s secret podcast starts to take...
