A Shoebox Full of Money by Martin Kleinman
A Shoebox Full of Money, Martin Kleinman’s all-new collection of short stories, takes readers on an unforgettable safari through the far corners of his New York City. A partial list of Martin’s cast of...
Category: New Books
Don’t Touch the Bones by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s Don’t Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world’s, a nation’s, and a family’s history.
Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel by Michal Shaul
Translators: Lenn J. Schramm, Gail Wald How did the Ultraorthodox (Haredi) community chart a new path for its future after it lost the core of its future leaders, teachers, and rabbis in the Holocaust?...
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain by Daniela Flesler, Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the “re-discovery” of its Jewish...
The Prince and the Sufi by Dalia Yasharpour
The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies The Prince and the Sufi is the literary composition of the seventeenth-century Judeo-Persian poet Elisha ben Shmūel. In The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha...
Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust by Judith Roumani
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the province, the Jews of Pitigliano, a four hundred-year-old...
Blintzes and Blunts and Blowies, Oh My! by Gabriela Nicole Kalter
Featuring a droll cocktail of millennial angst and dark humor, Blintzes and Blunts and Blowies, Oh My! gives the reader a candid look into the life of Lea Silber, a directionless twenty-something with an...
The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson
The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric...
Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History; edited by Abigail Green, Simon Levis Sullam
Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism The emancipatory promise of liberalism – and its exclusionary qualities – shaped the fate of Jews in many parts of the world during the age of empire....
Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson: Two Educators in the Abysses of History by Moshe Shner
The twentieth century left humanity in despair. Two World Wars caused the death of more than seventy million people. The Holocaust of the Jews and genocide against other groups left us the images of...
