My Mushy Matzah Bal by Arianna Brooks
Illustrator: Torey Butner My Mushy Matzah Ball is a hard cover book and a bright introduction to familiar Jewish foods, for ages 0-3. In this baby and toddler book, you’ll sample a variety of...
Category: New Books
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as...
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs...
Where from and Where to by Elizabeth Petuchowski
One of the Last Self-told German Jewish Life Stories What impact did the rise of Nazi dictatorship and mandatory anti-Semitism have on a Jewish child and young girl in Germany? How did her family...
Shmutz by Felicia Berliner
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the...
The Broken Night by Bruce Arlen Wasserman
In The Broken Night, poet Bruce Wasserman explores touchpoints of the little known and the unknown in conversations with the dead and a roll call of the living, to squeeze out the vibrant essence...
Major Jake Fortina and the Tier-One Threat by Rick Steinke
At the behest of rogue Iranian government officials, two terrorists break into the grave of an American veterans cemetery in the Suresnes suburb of Paris. What they take from that grave could lead to...
The Discarded Life by Adam Kirsch
In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen...
The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead
The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity...
There was a garden in Nuremberg by Navina Michal Clemerson
New Jewish Fiction Harrowing and illuminating, Navina Clemerson’s There Was a Garden in Nuremberg is a powerful reminder of the devastation that shaped Germany with the rise of the Nazi regime. Focusing on one...
