Category: New Books

Wild Irish Yenta by Joyce Sanderly

Wild Irish Yenta by Joyce Sanderly

Set against a backdrop of a suburban Maryland synagogue, Wild Irish Yenta dishes on interfaith marriage, misbehaving clergy, and the beauty of religious traditions. When the body of custodian Roberto Gomez is found in...

Soul House by Mireille Gansel

Soul House by Mireille Gansel

Translator: Joan Seliger Sid­ney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French-Jewish poet, translator, and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in...

Daughter of History by Susan Suleiman

Daughter of History by Susan Suleiman

Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and...

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

Cul­ti­vat­ing Cre­ativ­i­ty Through Ancient Jew­ish Wisdom The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish...

Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz by Ari Richter

Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz by Ari Richter

A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance In this debut graphic memoir, New York-based artist Ari Richter weaves together two haunting stories – his grand- and great-grandparents’ imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz,...

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

To save his family’s failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut. Ezra Friedman sees ghosts,...

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise By the...