Zelda Popkin by Jeremy D. Popkin
The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer Zelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of...
Category: New Books
Being a Nation State in the Twenty-First Century by Shuki Friedman
Between State and Synagogue in Modern Israel Judaism and Jewish Life Foreword: Justice Elyaḳim Rubinshṭain Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between “church” and state in...
The Bones of the World by Betsy L Ross
Suffering guards its mysteries, but when an upswell of antisemitism forces Rachel into hiding from the Righteous, she begins her journey to its center. The trip will take her back in history, to Sariah,...
The Red Balcony by Jonathan Wilson
It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff,...
Scapegoated by Jeff Oliver
There’s a global fainting pandemic that affects everyone but the Jews. Naturally, the world goes upside down (both literally and figuratively), and the Schtinklers are no exception. Sara is a quirky goat scientist whose...
The History of Birobidzhan by Gennady Estraikh
Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia Russian Shorts Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the...
The Accordion Player by Ichak K. Adizes
My Journey from Fear to Love Seeing every challenge as an opportunity for growth, Dr. Ichak Adizes moved beyond a childhood marked by imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and immigration to an unfamiliar...
The Mensch by Alan M Weber
The World Needs a Mensch… But Stewie Blueschwitz will have to do. A somewhat nebbishy twelve year old, Stewie would have been a curious choice to be a novel’s protagonist, were it not for...
Satisfaction Guaranteed by Micheline Maynard
How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years...
The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parker
A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way...
