New Jewish Books
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they...
How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful...
I find that reading a book that deals with theology and history often challenges my own belief system. To be more precise it encourages me to examine the validity of my own thinking, faith,...
The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It...
Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914 As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began...
The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Hardcover In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck...
A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men,...
Illustrator: Mackinzie Rekers An eerie noise in the night is disturbing the sleep of all the animals on Noah’s ark. None of the animals can identify the strange sound that has woken them up....
Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship Ever since Plato’s Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers...
Illustrator: Oliver Averill Luis de Torres is a secret Jew, a Catholic convert, who, in his heart, remains Jewish. When the Inquisition comes and Jews are forced to leave Spain, Luis decides to join...
