New Jewish Books
Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography A deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich...
Original historical and analytical research into the Israeli music scene, treating important composers as well as broader issues such as Jewish-Arab encounters, Holocaust memorialization and post-October 7th soundscapes. Does a nation’s music reflect its...
Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II—tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable...
Illustrator: Racheli David Rabbi Asi was an early Amora, born in Bavel, then moved to Eretz Yisrael. A lifelong companion to Rabbi Ammi and a talmid of Rabbi Yochanan, his adventures and teachings are found in both Talmudim and in the Midrashim.
Not Your Typical Boy-Meets-Girl Boy-Loses-Shiksa Story Welcome to the brain of Matt Check. Here you’ll find thoughts of bluegrass music, unrequited love, modern-day Nazis and uncircumcised penises. “Ugh, smegma,” as he likes to say....
Diasporic, Zionist, and Israeli Discourses on Identity How did Israeli and Western Jews react to Ethiopian immigrants in Israel who are referred to as “Black Jews”? The book addresses the question of what occurs...
Alex and Mela Roslan and their children, an ordinary, brave Polish family rescue Jewish brothers from the Warsaw Ghetto, with whom they bond, keeping them safe through the Holocaust and into post-Holocaust years on...
From former CIA analyst and best-selling author David McCloskey, a novel that takes readers deep into the shadow war between Iran and Israel. Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm,...
The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War...
From longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar: founding father of television comedy and icon to generations of Americans. By the spring of 1954, Sid Caesar was...
