New Jewish Books
Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, at a critical juncture in their country’s history, by a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent...
Rabbi Gershon Schusterman knew all the textbook answers when comforting bereaved community members who asked him, “Where is God? If God is loving, how could this happen?” But when the rabbi’s young wife died...
A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust 95% of Lithuania’s more than 200,000 Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust. Why did this small Baltic state prove to be the most efficient killing field of all?...
A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of...
A poignant and ultimately triumphant novel based on the incredible true story of children who braved the formidable danger of guarded, wintry mountain passes in France to escape the Nazis, from the acclaimed author...
A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics Open Judaism offers a big-tent welcome to all Jews and Judaism. It is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a...
Illustrator: Eric Zelz In his new book for young readers Mark Kurlansky’s lens is the art of the “big lie,” a term coined by Adolf Hitler. Kurlansky has written Big Lies: From Socrates to...
Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash What were biblical women thinking and doing when the men around them received all the attention and glory? How did Leah, Rachel, and their handmaids negotiate...
A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II A shocking true story of untold World War II secrets 1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the...
When we first meet Nomi, she is gazing out the window of an airplane taking her from the kibbutz that’s been home all her adult life, to Massachusetts, which she has not seen since...
