Category: New Books

Cas­soulet Con­fes­sions by Sylvie Bigar

Cas­soulet Con­fes­sions by Sylvie Bigar

Food, France and the Stew That Saved My Soul Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession...

Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah by Josh Ander­son

Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah by Josh Ander­son

In this unusual graphic novel for younger readers, Eli is feeling left out of the family’s preparations for his older brother’s bar mitzvah. He wants to help but can’t seem to do anything right....

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...