The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai
The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil...
Category: New Books
Stumbling Blocks by Jennifer Krebs
Stumbling Blocks, a second-generation Holocaust memoir, tells Jennifer’s and Paul’s stories. Paul, Jennifer’s father, was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of ten, just after Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his...
The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures by Pavel Brunssen
Studies in Antisemitism Why do non-Jewish football fans chant “Yid Army” or wave “Super Jews” banners―especially in support of clubs that are not Jewish? The Making of “Jew Clubs” explores how four major European...
Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession: A gendered opportunity by Jane Brooks
Nursing History and Humanities This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it...
Herminie and Fanny Pereire: Elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France by Helen M. Davies
Studies in Modern French and Francophone History Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a...
Skylark by Paula McLain
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in...
State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel by Elad Lapidot
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized...
A Voice from the Desert: The Great Isaiah Scroll by Marcello Fidanzio (Editor)
The Great Isaiah Scroll lives up to its present-day name: with its over 7 meters, it preserves a complete text of one of the most extensive Hebrew Bible books. Leading experts in Dead Sea...
Tales of Spirit Rising and Sometimes Falling: An Activist Life by Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow
A modern prophet looks back on seven decades of activism. Ask an expert who are the 5 most influential American Jewish leaders of the last century and Rabbi Arthur Waskow will make most of...
Daughter of Genoa by Kat Devereaux
The author of Escape to Florence returns with a thrilling adventure set in the war-torn 1940s and inspired by true events, about a young woman who risks everything to help Jewish Italians flee the fascists, and...
