All Three Stooges by Erica S. Perl
Spoiler alert: This book is not about the Three Stooges. It’s about Noah and Dash, two seventh graders who are best friends and comedy junkies. That is, they were best friends, until Dash’s father...
Category: New Books
In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times by David Stromberg
You don’t need to be Jewish to love Levy’s rye bread, nor do you need to read Yiddish to appreciate these wise tales. This engaging collection offers access to modern works–translated for the first...
Beyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion by Dmitry Shumsky
The Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism’s end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century...
The Orchard by Yochi Brandes
Daniel Libenson, translator Yochi Brandes is one of the top authors in Israel. The Orchard, her eighth book, is considered the most daring and ambitious of her novels. Critics went so far as to...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer...
The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 2: The Jewish Community and Beyond by Amy Scheinerman
How can I lead others with authority and kindness? How can I strengthen my self-control? How can I balance work and family? How can I get along with difficult coworkers? How can I best...
Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity by Gideon Reuveni
Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the...
Crescas: Light of the Lord (Or Hashem): Translated with introduction and notes
Translator: Roslyn Weiss This book is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas’s Light of the Lord, widely acknowledged as a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy and second in importance only to...
Maybe Esther: A Family Story by Katja Petrowskaja
Shelley Frisch, translator An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving debut memoir that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a...
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons
Vienna, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life’s path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the wealthiest in the world, has different expectations. United across Europe, Goldbaum...
