New Jewish Books
Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each...
Sparks from the Sedrah is a journey into the depths of the Torah. The Torah does not surrender its secrets easily; one must immerse in a labor of love to gain an understanding of the...
The first contemporary analysis of Bedouin and biblical cultures sheds new light on biblical laws, practices, and Bedouin history Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds...
Eli’s Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras―Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the...
Illustrator: Jessica Tamar Deutsch Young Esther is terribly upset. She has spent her entire life in Brooklyn, New York, and now, her family is moving to far away San Francisco. But Esther doesn’t like...
As only the second person in history to be awarded the PEGOT (Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), Marvin Hamlisch has quite an incredible story. This graphic novel adaptation of the biography of the renowned...
Truth and love are the twin foundations upon which all Yiddishkeit rests. There is only one truth the truth of the Creator as He reveals Himself to us. And there is only one love...
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in...
Bringing an animal into one’s home carries great responsibility. Pets in Halacha addresses: May I own a guinea pig, a boa constrictor, or a pit bull? May I feed a pet basar vechalav, pork, or shemittah produce? Must...
In May 1945, as World War II ended, an all-black U.S. Army truck company, including Lieutenant John L. Withers of Greensboro, North Carolina, rushed emergency supplies to an unknown German town. Long victims of...
