New Jewish Books
“I spent the first three years of my life unaware of the disaster that had befallen my family.” Annette Libeskind Berkovits writes: “I was shaped by the aftermath of the Holocaust…I adapted…grew a protective...
Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century The Middle Ages Series In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied...
A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the...
Illustrator: Yaara Eshet In this wordless time-travel adventure, three children at a Passover seder visit ancient Egypt to help baby Moses find his way safely to Pharaoh’s daughter. When a family settles at the...
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna...
Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left In calling America “the almost chosen nation,” Abraham Lincoln invoked at once the Old Testament and the Founders’ belief in the two covenantal communities’ common ideal: equal liberty....
How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust Illustrator: Amy June Bates The remarkable true story of how a toy duck smuggled forged identity papers for Jewish refugees during WWIIDuring World...
Recipes from Fargo’s Scandinavian-Jewish Deli Photographer: Sarah Strong From BernBaum’s, the beloved downtown Fargo bagel shop and restaurant, comes a gorgeous, down-to-earth cookbook filled with rustic, hearty, Jewish-Scandinavian recipes and culinary insight that’s sure...
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic...
Bible and Women For many, the Middle Ages in general evokes a sense of the sinister and brings to mind a world of fear, superstition, and religious fanaticism. For Jews it was a period...
