See the Beetle by Steven Sheldon
Growing up the son of a well-respected money manager, Marty Kaplan caught the investment bug early. Or maybe he just wanted his father’s approval. Either way, now in forties, Marty’s obsessed with becoming a...
Category: New Books
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein
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...
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that...
Zionism’s Redemptions by Arieh Saposnik
Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism In this volume, Arieh Saposnik examines the complicated relations between nationalism and religious (and non-religious) redemptive traditions through the case study of...
Staying Human by Harris Bor
Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a ‘singularity, ‘ where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions...
Dreamers of the Ghetto by I. Zangwill
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English humourist and writer. Zangwill wrote the influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase “melting pot” to...
A for concept, creativity, and colors; thoughts on “B is for Bagel” by Rachel Teichman
When I learned about “B is for Bagel” by Rachel Teichman, the idea of cookbooks for children hit me like a novel notion. Then I remembered that three decades ago I received a “Superheroes’...
The Emerald Horizon by Jean Grainger
The Star and the Shamrock Berlin, 1944 Ariella Bannon is being hunted. Someone is determined to betray her as a Jew, but she has survived against incredible odds, and the end is in sight....
Bartali’s Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero by Megan Hoyt
Illustrator: Iacopo Bruno Author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno bring to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and secret champion in the fight for Jewish lives during...
Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel by Ethan Michaeli
In 2015, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned that the country’s citizens were dividing into tribes: by class and ethnicity, by geography, and along lines of faith. In Twelve Tribes, award-winning author Ethan Michaeli portrays...
