New Jewish Books
A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine Steve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid...
The Chosen meets Adam Silvera in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and hatred. Hoodie Rosen’s life isn’t that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked...
Translation and introduction: Joshua Cohen Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois...
Illustrator: Ronald Kurniawan From the award-winning screenwriter-director Darren Aronofsky and his screenwriting partner, Ari Handel, comes Monster Club. Their debut novel is the first book in a thrilling, new adventure series about growing up,...
The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life...
To save her best friend from the horrors of Nazi Germany, an invisible girl must embark on an utterly unforgettable journey of redemption and revenge. The Vanishing is fierce and loving, devastating and compelling,...
The Biblical narrative is usually very terse and cryptic. Over the millennia, Jewish scholars often painted a patriarchal picture with women “in their place.” Yes, ancient Middle Eastern society was patriarchal, but matriarchs had...
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each...
Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150 – 1200 William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of...
Illustrator: Sophie Casson When a Jewish army captain is falsely accused of treason and sent to prison, a writer uses his pen to fight for justice. In 1895 a prisoner watches the ocean through...
