New Jewish Books
How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America How did Humphrey Bogart end up telling Lauren Bacall a Talmudic story in the film Key Largo, and what does that have to do...
Foreword: Julia Moskin When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a dairy store on 80th Street and Broadway in 1934 to sell smoked fish, they could not have imagined that their store...
Strzyzow (also known as Strizev in Yiddish and Strezow in German) is today a major town in southern Poland (it was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary, from 1776 to 1919). The...
A Hidden Child and her Dutch Rescuers This is the story of Sabine Fröhlich and the harrowing experiences of her family during the Nazi regime – experiences she did not disclose to her children...
In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy is rejected by his mother so she can run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy’s godfather. Shirley Rook quickly rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As...
You don’t even have to suspend your disbelief: the relentless optimism of Andrew Caldwell’s political fantasy will steamroll it for you. Reading it provided me with a much-needed dose of upbeat energy, contrasting what...
Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else...
Raced, Sexed, and Erased What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews...
Foreword: Rob Rinder Just Freddy, the story inspired by Freddy Stern’s escape from Nazi Germany, is released today, published exclusively through Amazon. A new book specifically written to introduce children and young adults to...
From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad – My Grandfather’s Life “Titan of Tehran,” a richly reported and elegantly rendered story, presents a compelling central character, historic sweep and moments that read like chapters...
