A Well-Spiced Life by Barbara Bensoussan
An Exuberant Discovery of Sephardic Food, Family, and Faith What happens when the nice Jewish boy you end up marrying comes not from New York but from Casablanca? Who considers chicken soup little more...
Category: New Books
Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family by Jordan Mechner
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner calls on the voices of his father and grandfather to weave a powerful story about the enduring challenge of holding a family together in the face of an...
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler
The Modern Jewish Experience Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among...
Carrying a Big Schtick by Miriam Eve Mora
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam...
Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” by Gerald Sorin
The Modern Jewish Experience Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner...
Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan...
Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss by Warren Kozak
To those around me—my friends, my colleagues, even my daughter—I appear normal, but in one very fundamental way, I am not. The old me left with my wife. I’m not sure who this new...
As the Dust of the Earth by Harriet Murav
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine Jews of Eastern Europe An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the...
Ain’t No Grave by Mary Glickman
From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South. “A...
Lotus Girl by Helen Tworkov
My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America From one of the central figures in Buddhism’s introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one’s...
