New Jewish Books
The chapters in this volume examine facets in the drama of Jewish existence in the tumultuous years of the Twentieth Century and beyond. They include Theodor Herzl as Zionism’s driven prophet; James G. McDonald’s...
My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Ivor was born in 1931 and grew up in the village of Barsana, Romania, with his parents and siblings. In August 1940, the village was...
The Andalusian Trilogy Hasdai Shaprut, esteemed counselor and Grand Vizier of the Umayyad Caliphate, has vanished. The disappearance the Kingdom of Córdoba’s highest ranking Jew, who also serves as Foreign Minister, threatens the future...
Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Rav Kook (1865–1935), the first chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, was a revered thinker whose ideas were in the vanguard of religious Zionist ideology. His theological positions have...
A gripping heart-wrenching historical novel based on a true story One fateful choice changed their lives forever. Germany, 1946. Still picking up the pieces in the aftermath of World War II, Franka and her...
Translator: Wil Schutt Alberto Vigevani’s The Trunk (originally La breve passeggiata), now available in English, is a poignant and lyrical portrait of an Italian-Jewish family navigating the rising tide of Fascism through the lens...
Jews of Eastern Europe The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality,...
Illustrator: Cinzia Battistel Is there a story behind Rembrandt’s famous painting of Queen Esther? In Rembrandt Chooses a Queen, the famous artist has a problem. He wants to paint a scene from the biblical...
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacy A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the...
