New Jewish Books
A Bittersweet Love Song to Jewish Alexandria Lost Egypt comes alive in Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s 1978 Hebrew idyll ‘Alexandrian Summer,’ in a first English translation Alexandrian Summer is a nostalgic, farewell portrait of a...
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the death of I.L. Peretz, perhaps the most important cultural figure in the history of modern Jewish literature. One of the three major writers of the first...
Reviewed by Amy Weiss, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA In this revised edition of Beyond Breaking the Glass, Nancy Wiener updates her informative guide to Jewish weddings to reflect changes that have occurred...
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy Do you think that making people more aware of the presence of the Shekhina is important because there is more evil in the world today? Let me put it this way. The...
It is 1969, and Johanna Reiss has been convinced by her husband, Jim, to revisit Holland, where she was born, and then to write a memoir of her childhood. It is to be a...
A presentation based on Talmudic and traditional sources A holiday of delirious joy, of friendship, of charity, of brotherhood, of rededication to the ideals of Judaism – all of these are Purim. It is...
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but...
Bo Lidegaard, the editor in chief of Denmark’s leading newspaper,Politiken, and a former diplomat in the Danish Foreign Service, has written what should become the definitive history of how the Danes saved more than...
This anthology draws upon biblical, rabbinical, medieval, and modern sources–from art, music, recipes, and crafts, as well as fiction, poetry, and essays–about the significance and historical development of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish “New Year...
When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn’t mean the end of her hardship and suffering. Cold and starving, threatened with rape...
