New Jewish Books
German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 German and European Studies When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life....
Foreword: Eric H. Cline In AD 132 began the bloody struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at...
Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy...
Illustrator: Avi Katz Yitzy gets sick before a birthday party and wonders how it could be a good thing. With the help of his family, he learns an important lesson on gam zu letova.
The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has...
The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream Foreword: Ray Allen When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy...
Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of...
Foreword: Sara J. Bloomfield What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany...
Illustrator: Kaja Kajfez After a pogrom forces Batya’s Russian Jewish family to leave their home and make the journey to America, Batya hopes her new life will offer her a chance to become a...
