New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Mary Kusumkali Biswas The Clever Dreidel’s Chanukah Wishes is a beautiful, sentimental, and hopeful book that will resonate with all tender and loving hearts who wish and pray for a better world.The clever...
Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original...
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won’t even buy him a...
Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in luminous prose by...
When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters – rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume...
Valeria Cis, illustrator Shy Anna doesn’t think she is anything like her outgoing, funny, clever mother. One day Anna sees a hungry man on the street and decides to find a way to help....
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young...
Rinat Gilboa, illustrator Celebrate Passover with traditional seder texts, as well as poems, readings, and stories that acknowledge, value, and include the diverse backgrounds of seder participants today. Lead lively discussions on the universal...
This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market...
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit...
