Kafka’s Cats by Gábor T. Szántó
From Tablet Magazine An excerpt from a new Hungarian novel imagines a world in which the Prague master survives tuberculosis, gives up writing, and finally finds some peace By Gábor T. Szántó In Berlin...
Category: New Books
The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born, minutes apart. The mothers are sisters by marriage: dutiful, quiet Rose, who wants nothing more than to please...
In His Image: The Image of God in Man by Yuval Cherlow
At a time when religion is distorted to crush, belittle, and negate Man, when personal responsibility is replaced by passive faith, and human endeavor is deemed unworthy, In His Image seeks to reinstate one...
Kafka’s Son by Curt Leviant
From the award-winning author of The Yemenite Girl comes an enigmatic novel about identity and personal reinvention. Kafka’s Son is both a moving tribute to Franz Kafka and a story of fate and miracles,...
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” by Tahneer Oksman
Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the...
Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side by Lyla Blake Ward
In Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye—Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side, Lyla Blake Ward, author of How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying, tells it like it was growing up...
More Fully Alive: The Benefits of Using Jewish Wisdom for Responding to Stress and Overload by Leonard Felder
Bestselling author and psychologist Leonard Felder, PhD has written several books on how to utilize Jewish spiritual methods for dealing with difficult people and stressful moments. His new book “More Fully Alive: The Benefits...
Last Song Before Night by Ilana C. Myer
A high fantasy following a young woman’s defiance of her culture as she undertakes a dangerous quest to restore her world’s lost magic in Ilana C. Myer’s Last Song Before Night. Her name was...
Reading Genesis: Beginnings by Beth Kissileff
Deuteronomy 32:47 says the Pentateuch should not be ‘an empty matter.’ This new anthology from Beth Kissileff fills Genesis with meaning, gathering intellectuals and thinkers who use their professional knowledge to illuminate the Biblical...
From Ashes Into Light by Gudrun Mouw
FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT is a transpersonal tale of epic tragedy, spirituality, family, and personal redemption. It is told through three distinct voices: the haunting story of Ruth, a Jewish adolescent during Kristallnacht in...
