New Jewish Books
Seeking Home is a memoir of a childhood in China as a refugee from Nazi Germany during the turbulent years 1934-49. Richter recalls the little-known history of North China’s occupation by the Japanese during...
Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock’s new star. 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months...
The Holocaust was a systematic, state-sponsored genocide carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators from 1941 to 1945, targeting Jews and others deemed undesirable. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish communities in...
Rachele Modiano Mendes investigates Venice 1947. Countess Pesaro De Bonfili is searching for the legitimate heirs of Raffaele and Sylvia Mustaki, a couple who did not survive Nazi camps. Two researchers from a Venetian...
A new interpretation of historical and contemporary Jewish texts that views diaspora as a positive outcome for Jews and for the world Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered...
Mark Twain once said, “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heels that crushed it.” The Scent of Violets explores this subject by asking if it is possible to forgive such...
Deftly weaving romance, action, and humor with a quest for integrity in an unjust world, Love, Coffee, and Revolution is a timely and relatable coming-of-age novel. Dee Blum has a plan. Or rather, her parents do....
Was Abraham a real historical figure, or is he a figment of the imagination, a product of a literary tradition? Abraham is not mentioned in any of the extra biblical documents from the third...
Auntie Ada: The Unlikeliest Hero of the Holocaust is the story of the author’s Great Auntie Ada, who people will come to know better as Sister Agnes (Clare) Walsh, a British Hero of the...
New poetry by the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth. Idra Novey’s first collection in a decade, since Patricia Smith chose...
