New Jewish Books
A witty and wide-ranging exploration of a book that has perplexed and delighted people for centuries: the Talmud. For numerous centuries, the Talmud―an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition―has compelled readers to...
Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes collapsed...
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Greek city during WWII, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils...
The octopus is one of God’s most amazing creations. It is an exceptional creature with unusual abilities. It can taste food with its arms, change colors, solve puzzles with its nine brains and both...
Uncovering a Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime Shanghai Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth...
Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated...
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Foreword: Arthur Hertzberg Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the...
Illustrator: Aviel Basil “On Hanukkah, Uncle Haim the carpenter made Gil and Nurit a wooden dreidel. This was no ordinary dreidel.” It is Hanukkah, and brother and sister Gil and Nurit have just been...
The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States Translator: Karen Santos Da Silva For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has...
A vampire’s tale of love, lust, revenge and redemption. Schlimazel has been bullied his whole life by the coarse and prejudiced peasants of Sebreim, and it doesn’t help when he falls in love with...
