New Jewish Books
Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Supplement to Aramaic Studies This book conducts a study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and suggests that the alleged contradictions are ultimately given to resolution, once...
The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrative—a rare blend of informative, poignant, excruciating, startling, humorous, and ultimately inspiring storytelling. In 1986, when her...
In this book, The Gift of Reaching Out, Yankele thinks back to the time he did not give his seat to an older man on the bus. With his mom’s guidance, he is determined...
A Novel of World War II In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France―a girl. He thought she...
An Inspiring Gateway into Deeper Jewish Thought through the Lens of the Weekly Parashah Everyone will agree that a story needs an ending; unless a story goes somewhere, it’s pointless. The purpose of a...
American Princess Amy is off to boot camp!Guess who’s jetting off to the Holy Land this summer! Yes, it’s me—Amy Nelson-Barak. I’ve volunteered for ten days of military training in Israel with my friends....
In 1973, Linda Pressman’s Holocaust Survivor parents pack up their family of seven daughters and move cross country, from idyllic Skokie, Illinois, to the wild west – Scottsdale, Arizona – in a time of...
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly picture-perfect, lives begin to...
When Simon Majaro’s father reached the age of 90, after 60 years of devoted medical care of his mixed constituency of Jews, Arabs and Christians, the Municipality of Jerusalem awarded him the title ‘Dr....
From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. When I Grow Up is New Yorker...
