Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene’s life hasn’t quite turned out as planned. She’s a single mom living with her daughter and her gay friend, Ahmad. Her PhD on Dante’s Vita Nuova...
Category: New Books
Surviving Hitler: The Unlikely True Story of an SS Soldier and a Jewish Woman by O. Hakan Palm
Gustav Palm kept his secret for more than forty years. He’d been a young man when Hitler invaded his native Norway. After being forced to guard a Nazi prison camp, however, Gustav took his...
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author by Herman Wouk
In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old. Many years ago, the...
White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between by Judy Batalion
Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras,...
Reflections on Herman Wouk
From Tablet Magazine: The first novel I ever read was by Herman Wouk. Now, 60 years later, he’s publishing yet another one. By Morton Landowne When I became a senior citizen a few years...
Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov
Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of...
Creating a Collection: a Basic Book List for Judaic Libraries by Marlene Schiffman, Leslie Monchar
Creating a Collection is an invaluable resource for new Judaic libraries. In this revised edition of AJL’s annotated non-fiction collection development guide, our editors have added many recent titles and expanded the list of...
Sweet Burdens: Welfare and Communality Among Russian Jews in Germany by Sveta Roberman
Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question...
Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish by Barry Deutsch
Welcome back to Hereville, where Mirka, the world’s first time-traveling, monster-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, faces her greatest challenge yet: babysitting! Mirka just wants to find new adventures, but instead she’s stuck babysitting her disapproving...
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 by Hillel Cohen
What inspires someone to wake up one day and kill their neighbor? How do communities internalize and remember periods of intense violence and hatred? How do those memories shape our identities and relationships going...
