Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she’s always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy...
Category: New Books
Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World by Aviva Ben-Ur, Wim Klooster (Editors )
Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic...
The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand by Michaele Weissman
Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle. When they first meet, John, a dashing...
Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman by David Ohana
Perspectives on Israel Studies Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman is the first intellectual biography of this remarkable Egyptian-Jewish intellectual, whose work has secured her place in literary pantheon as a herald of Levantine, Mediterranean,...
On Fire Island by Jane L. Rosen
A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A Shoe Story. As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories....
Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Translator: Ewa Wampuszyc In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust...
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim
Poland, 1944The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside....
Monotheism and Narrative Development of the Divine Character in the Hebrew Bible by Mark McEntire
Elements in Religion and Monotheism The preeminent example of monotheism, the God of the Hebrew Bible, is the end product of a long process. The world from which this literature emerged was polytheistic. The...
Miryam’s Dance by Kerry Olitzky and Rachel Stock Spilker
Illustrator: John Baptist Tumuhaise Ugandan artist John Baptist Tumuhaise brings a Jewish Ugandan village to life in this story of a young girl who is distracted from her Shabbat preparation chores by the lure...
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity by Simcha Gross
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire...
