The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner
A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little...
Category: New Books
Tasa’s Song by Linda Kass
An extraordinary novel inspired by true events. 1943. Tasa Rosinski and five relatives, all Jewish, escape their rural village in eastern Poland―avoiding certain death―and find refuge in a bunker beneath a barn built by...
The Israel Warrior: Fighting Back for the Jewish State from Campus to Street Corner by Shmuley Boteach
Are you fed up with the nonstop attacks on Israel that reek of double standards and hatred? With the foul moral equivalency of Jews dying as targets of terrorists and Palestinians dying undertaking acts...
The Dead Man by Nora Gold
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Women’s Studies. THE DEAD MAN is a compelling novel about a woman who is obsessed. Eve, who is both a composer of sacred music and a music therapist, is well aware...
The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler
This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last. Estranged from her family...
Move Over, Cairo. The Afghan Geniza Will Blow Your Mind.
From Jewniverse First there was the discovery of the Cairo Geniza. And now there’s this. In 2011, a report by Israel’s Channel 2 News told of how foxes scratching in the dirt somewhere in...
City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens...
Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare’s plays? by John Hudson
From Jewniverse There have been lots of claims over the years that Shakespeare had a ghostwriter. But the suggested writer has never been a Jewish woman—until now. John Hudson – renowned Shakespeare scholar, teacher...
Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It by Michael Wex
Bagels, deli sandwiches and gefilte fish are only a few of the Jewish foods to have crossed into American culture and onto American plates. Rhapsody in Schmaltz traces the history and social impact of...
A Kabbalistic View of History by Z’Ev Ben Shimon Halevi
Kabbalistic View of History describes the story of humanity and the purpose of Existence in terms of kabbalistic principles. As evolution moves from savagery to civilisation, so the vegetable, animal and human levels of...
