New Jewish Books
It is often suggested that all of the constituent groups of the Jewish Diaspora incorporated histories of persecutions and forced expulsions into their narratives of identity, even before the Holocaust and the foundation of...
In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the...
Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from...
I am pleased to announce that the AJL Judaica Awards Committee has reviewed 2013 reference and bibliography publications and successfully selected winners for both the reference and bibliography categories. Solon Beinfeld and Harry...
Jascha and Lilka escape separately from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Reunited years later, they are living in London where Jascha has become a celebrated writer, feted for his dark tales about his wartime...
Joanna Hershon’s fervently readable new novel, A Dual Inheritance, follows friends of different ethnicities and classes as they swerve through the awkwardness of adolescence into the complexity of middle age. Like Rich Boy, The...
The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide...
When: Thursday, April 24, 3:00 pm EST (noon PST, 10 pm Israel time) Where: Facebook What: I’ll be chatting with Timber Rose author J.L. Oakley about my Ezra Melamed Mystery Series and Regency England’s Jewish community. So if you have questions about Tempest in the...
Novel fulfills writer Ayelet Waldman’s long-held ‘obsession’ with Holocaust Ayelet Waldman accomplishes a deft feat in her new book, “Love and Treasure.” The Berkeley writer’s elegant, sweeping Holocaust novel does not once visit the...
A hundred years ago, a gifted young storyteller aspired to write the Great American Novel; today, she is more likely to want to put her gifts to use writing a memoir, or a collection...
