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The Men Can’t Be Saved by Ben Purk­ert

The Men Can’t Be Saved by Ben Purk­ert

A knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls? Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He’s the agency’s hottest new star,...

The For­got­ten Singer by Mau­rice Carr

The For­got­ten Singer by Mau­rice Carr

The Exiled Sis­ter of I.J. and Isaac Bashe­vis Singer The Forgotten Singer, published in English for the first time tells the story of the author’s mother, Esther Singer Kreitman, a literary genius who was...

The Mon­ey Kings by Daniel Schul­man

The Mon­ey Kings by Daniel Schul­man

The Epic Sto­ry of the Jew­ish Immi­grants Who Trans­formed Wall Street and Shaped Mod­ern America The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names...

A Mirror of the Jewish Religion by Jonathan Adams (Editor)

A Mirror of the Jewish Religion by Jonathan Adams (Editor)

A Critical Edition and Translation of Christian Petter Löwe’s “Speculum Religionis Judaicæ” (1732) (Religious Minorities in the North) In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror...