New Jewish Books
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers...
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language...
A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of...
Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their...
Learn how to increase happiness and well-being for yourself, for your family, for the world–Jewishly. Positive Judaism offers readers of all backgrounds a pathway to enhanced well-being and happiness. Drawing on three thousand years of...
“If you ask me now if it was all worth it, would I do it all again, then I know I am supposed to say, ‘Yes! I wouldn’t change a thing.’ I’m just not...
Editors: Shaul Seidler-Feller, David N. Myers Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty...
Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr....
A laugh out loud romantic dramedy and multi-generational family saga! A DNA test sends adoptee Rose Pettigrew, a young black lawyer, on a sometimes wildly comic, sometimes touching journey to find her Jewish family....
May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In “Those Who Didn’t Survive,” Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with...
