New Jewish Books
Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor–from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen–have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism...
After being expelled from Oberlin for hallucinogenic drug use, Izzy Edel seeks out his estranged father—a Polish Jew turned Israeli soldier turned New York street vendor named Alojzy who is reported to be missing,...
Emphasizing Roman Vishniac’s prodigious talents as one of the great documentary photographers of the 20th century, this volume presents the full range of his artistic genius. Drawn from the International Center of Photography’s vast...
Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved...
And that is the point of Ron Wolfson’s game changing book: that connecting Jews to synagogues, Jewish organizations, and to Judaism itself is all about relationships (or what I have called connectedness in my...
• One of the only known wartime diaries written by an Orthodox Jew • This diary was crafted as a memoir — complete with chapter titles and a table of contents — by its...
The October Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted Erika Dreifus at Fig Tree Books at https://figtreebooks.net/step-right-up-to-the-jewish-book-carnival/. You’ll find links to Jewish book news,...
Stolen Legacy is a non-fiction historical narrative centered on a Jewish family’s legal battle to reclaim ownership of a building stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. The building at Krausenstrasse 17/18 in Berlin...
EUROPEAN DIVISION AND THE HEBREW LANGUAGE TABLE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRESENT WRITING THE HOLOCAUST Discussions with Anthony Pitch & Nancy Geise Moderated by Michlean Amir of the USMHM Monday November 9 at...
Seventy years ago Joe Rubinstein walked out of a Nazi concentration camp. Until now, his story has been hidden from the world. Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers...
