Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class....
Category: New Books
The Wrong Jew: Defeating Those Who Want Us Dead by Hesh Kestin
In The Wrong Jew, author Hesh Kestin doesn’t bother with the why of anti-Semitism but instead offers a battle plan for how to defeat those who would destroy the Jews. At a time when Jews are under attack from...
Jewish Community of Atlanta by Jeremy Katz
Foreword: Eric L Goldstein Images of America As Atlanta evolved from a sleepy, backwater, 19th-century frontier railroad town into a 21st-century international metropolis, Jewish men and women significantly contributed to the rich tapestry of...
The Eternal Bond by Rabbi Yirmiyohu & Tehilla Abramov
Torah Guidelines for Married Children’s Relationships with their Parents. Includes relevant Hilchos Kibud Av V’eim for ALL Children. I have read the book “The Eternal Bond”: Torhah Guidelines for Married Children’s Relationship with Their...
Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989 by Tina Frühauf
By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable. And yet, as surviving Jews returned from hiding,...
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis: Canada’s Anti-Semitic Policies in the Twentieth Century by Rona Arato
Prior to the Second World War, Canada’s Jewish community was well established in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. As war grew closer, anti-Semitism across Europe was increasing. Hitler’s Nazis were spreading hatred...
Ashkenazic Jews and the Biblical Israelites: The Early Demographic Development of East European Ashkenazis by Jits Straten
Who were the early ancestors of East European Ashkenazic Jews, how were they related to the biblical Israelites/Judeans, and when and from where did they arrive in Eastern Europe? This book intends to answer...
Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove
Translted by Jessica KirzaneEdited by Deborah Manion First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916–18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of...
Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe: Imagery of Hatred; edited by Jakub Hauser, Eva Janáová
In eleven contributions, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe, Imagery of Hatred deals with visual manifestations of antisemitism in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. The publication, which presents heretofore largely unknown materials,...
In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir by Emil Draitser
Emil Draitser dreamed of becoming a writer. Born to a working-class Jewish family in the USSR on the eve of World War II, he came of age during the Brezhnev era, often considered the...
