New Jewish Books
Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendship, and the dream of finding home. 1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances....
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and ’70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker...
A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy Cooking alla Giudia is the ultimate tribute to the wonderfully rich, yet still largely unknown, culinary heritage of the Jews of Italy. From Roman deep-fried artichokes...
Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Editor: Brian HorowitzTranslator: Hugh McLeanPreface: William Craft Brumfield Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda’s brilliant...
A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine,...
A hilarious, heartfelt story about four lifelong friends determined to change their lives, come hell (terrible bosses, ex-husbands living next door) or high water (laundry…so much laundry) from the acclaimed author of Last Summer...
The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever Copenhagen International Seminar This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism. While these scholars...
Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some...
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Translator: Batya Stein The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of...
The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory: The Crisis of Testimony in Theory and Practice re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter in the present. It explores how...
