New Jewish Books
Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion...
Little is spoken of, and hardly remembered, concerning Shem, son of Noah. Yet is from him, in the Academy of Shem and Ever, that “Kabbalah Kadmonim” − Wisdoms of the Ancients, from Adam, Seth,...
Take a ride back in time to the Wild West, where a young Levi Strauss builds his family business into a cornerstone of the multicultural boom town of San Francisco. A Jewpanese love story...
Through personal narrative and letters preserved for decades, Béla’s Letters tells the remarkable story of a large Eastern European family torn apart by war and the Holocaust, the extraordinary circumstances that each family member...
The Fusgeyers were Jews who fled persecution in Romania in the early 1900s to find refuge, ultimately, in the New World. On hundred years later, Culiner retraces their steps on foot in the search...
A Selection of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Introduced, Transcribed, Translated, and Annotated, with Images. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series Volume 7. Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah, which sets a new tone for...
My Aunt Manya is a period novel set in Russia at the end of the 19th century. The heroine, ten-year-old Sarah, lives unhappily with her much-hated stepmother. Sarah’s father has gone to live in...
One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin...
When Jay Neugeboren’s first novel, Big Man, was published, James Michener called it ”as good a sports novel as has ever been written.” Now, nearly a half century later, Neugeboren is publishing Max Baer...
Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas seeks to explore the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas. It offers a wide-ranging review of new...
