New Jewish Books
Translator: Daniella Zamir The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home,...
Jews in Gilded Age America. Essays by Twenty Contributing Scholars New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish history The thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a...
Basha Freilich and the Will to Live The true story of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl is torn from her home and family and thrust into one of history’s greatest atrocities, the concentration camp of Auschwitz....
Golems and Goblins Rebecca copes with family turmoil, a home invaded by demons, and what it means to grow up in this gripping sequel to Naomi Teitelbaum Ends the World that’s perfect for fans...
Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing...
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos had once deemed Judaic traditions...
Based on the true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz Hinda was eighteen years old when an axe crashed through the front door of her home in Poland. Nazi soldiers swarmed inside...
Illustrator: Mary Uhles Rosie Revere Engineer meets Noah’s Ark! What if Naamah, Noah’s wife, was actually a math and engineering whiz? Enjoy this fun, zany, and girl-powered take on the traditional Noah’s Ark story.
For twelve year-old Motti, growing up in Israel in the 1960s, the world is full of mysteries to be solved, while his town is full of spies to be caught. His parents are Holocaust...
Text, Contingency, Desire Jewish Culture and Contexts Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approach to the study of Jewish thought and culture. By creatively foregrounding...
