New Jewish Books
Eight Jewish Lives under Stalin Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian...
Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a different background and a different country, but all have endured the horrors of imprisonment in Auschwitz....
Illustrator: Jonathan Burrello Loveable Monster Holiday Vampires don’t observe Shabbos, but they do make excellent dinner guests. They have to be invited into the house, but they know to bring the wine for kiddush...
A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine...
The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz Translator: Rubye Monet A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish...
Before and After Babel In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and...
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan A piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one’s own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She’s made sacrifices...
Samuel Untermyer and the Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott Campaign In the era of the appeasement of the dictators, Samuel Untermyer stands out as a champion of the human rights of not just German Jewry, but...
Stacy Friedman is getting ready for one of the most important events of her young life – her bat mitzvah. All she wants is the perfect dress to wear, her friends by her side,...
Iowa Whitman Series Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry,...
