New Jewish Books
From the United Nations to the media, and from academia to international NGOs, the attacks on Israel’s legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewish people are growing. To win this war of words, Israel’s...
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with author Maggie Anton about her book of women, Talmud, and sorcery: Enchantress. This historical fiction/fantasy novel...
Playing mah jongg is simple. Excelling at it is another matter entirely. Author Karen Gooen had a plan: if she could find the right mentor, the quintessential mah jongg maven, then perhaps she could...
Bestselling author Emily Liebert burst onto the scene in 2010 with her wildly popular book Facebook Fairytales, a media sensation that sparked intense conversation about the positive power of Facebook. Since then, she’s captivated...
Alex was seventeen years old when he was deported together with his family to Birkenau. His mother and younger sister were gassed on arrival. Selected to work in the Birkenau Sonderkommando, Alex lived on,...
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Jan Gross’s hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian’s disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens...
Illustrated by Mary Abadi Avigail, being the youngest of four, is always last. Even more, she always gets her sisters old hand-me-downs. It’s only when her aunt unexpectedly pays a visit that Avigail gets...
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the heart-rending and engrossing story of a close-knit Jewish family of five sisters who had to make some devastating medical decisions in order to keep...
This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new and existing...
“Indispensable” is an overused term in book reviews, but Timothy Snyder’s analysis of the political, social, intellectual, and historical circumstances that gave rise to and even nourished Hitler’s brilliant madness is truly that. The...
