The Einstein Effect by Benyamin Cohen
How the World’s Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds A fascinating look into how Einstein’s genius and science continues to show up in so many facets of our everyday...
Category: New Books
The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic by Gila Fine
Rereading the Women of the Talmud Women in the Talmud are generally marginal and almost always anonymous – the daughters, sisters, and wives of prominent rabbis. The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic explores the...
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and...
Violin of Hope by Ella Schwartz
Illustrator: Juliana Oakley Based on the true story of luthiers who repair Holocaust-era violins. Papa plays beautiful music on the violin, sometimes quick and lively and sometimes slow and sorrowful. But one night, there...
A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner
A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution–fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown–and in...
Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer
Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as...
Legal Gladiator: The Life of Alan Dershowitz by Solomon Schmidt
The only biography of America’s most controversial lawyer. Legal Gladiator is the story of perhaps the greatest lawyer in American history. It is the story of a poor, failing high schooler from Brooklyn who became...
Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger
An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the...
One More Story, Tata! by Julie Salamon
Illustrator: Jill Weber This heartwarming story of a little girl’s bond with her great-grandma, who tells the silliest, most magical stories, celebrates four generations of a Jewish family who come together for Shabbat. It’s...
A Speaker Is a Wilderness by Anna Goodman Herrick
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole Weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness. ...
