Happy Purim by Estelle Hanania
Ever wish you could just stare at kids in Purim costumes without looking away? Thanks to French photographer Estelle Hanania, now you can. In her gorgeous photography book Happy Purim (Shelter Press), she selects...
Category: New Books
A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz by Göran Rosenberg
Sarah Death (Translator) This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize On August 2,...
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
The novel that stunned—and scandalized—Europe comes to America Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London’s gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been—and a dangerous present populated by...
The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
By Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney A groundbreaking World War II narrative wrapped in a riveting detective story, The Devil’s Diary investigates the disappearance of a private diary penned by one of Adolf...
Wine & Wisdom: A Halachic Overview of Fine Wines and Their Brachos by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis
Torah study offers eternal bliss in both this world and the Next. The Midrash teaches that the pleasure experienced from studying Torah is comparable to that of drinking fine wine. How are we to...
Somehow I Am Different: Narratives of Searching and Belonging in Jewish Budapest by Alyssa Petersel
How do we come to be who we are spiritually? How does our political and social environment influence our development of self? What drives us to discover our purpose and to contribute positively to...
Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals,...
Imagine That by Mark Fins
Big-hearted, 8 year-old Mark Leonard lives on the brink of two worlds: one steeped in the hardship of post-World War II America, where his father is consumed by financial woes; the other where he...
Wonders of the Gedolim: Three Amazing Stories of Wisdom and Courage by Yeshayahu Mentzer
Jacky Yarhi (Illustrator) Three timeless, historical tales that depict the greatness of the Jewish People and their invincible spirit: A haughty French duke, leading battalions of soldiers on their way to conquer Jerusalem, visits...
Forgiving Mariela Camacho by A. J. Sidransky
Detective Pete Gonzalvez knew from the start that the dead woman he and his partner, Tolya Kurchenko, discovered in a Manhattan apartment did not commit suicide. Pete knew her better than that. Mariela Comacho...
