Once More with Chutzpah by Haley Neil
A moving YA debut about a girl who grapples with questions of her Jewish identity, mental health struggles, and sexuality while on a temple exchange trip through Israel. When high school senior Tally and...
Category: New Books
The Nazi’s Granddaughter by Silvia Foti
How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered...
Message and Composition of the Book of Isaiah by Antti Laato
An Interpretation in the Light of Jewish Reception History The study deals with the theological message and composition of the Book of Isaiah and promotes a thesis that an early Jewish reception history helps...
Why We Fly by Gilly Segal
From the New York Times bestselling authors of I’m Not Dying with You Tonight comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest. With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best...
Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism by Daniel Lasker
Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic Judaism, namely, that Jewish...
Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin
As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive...
Jacob Fishman’s Marriages by Barry Friedman
One couple. Two stories. One truth. Sort of. Jacob Fishman is miserable. His wife, Cindi, is miserable. His editor wants him to write another book. Suffocating in his own self-consciousness, Jacob decides to explore...
Coming to Terms with America by Jonathan D. Sarna
Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism by Dekel Peretz
Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine Europäisch-Jüdische Studien Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in...
I Am My Beloveds by Jonathan Papernick
A new novel that offers refreshing insight into the intimacy, shortcomings, and experimentation of marriage. Ben Seidel and his wife, Shira, had been growing apart after Shira’s cancer treatment causes her infertility. Now, their...
