New Jewish Books
From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays...
Illustrator: Caterina Baldi Ellen M. Shapiro is an author, graphic designer, and lecturer who has taught at leading design schools, including the Designer as Author MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts....
In rural Iowa in 1941, twelve-year-old Peggy’s quiet life is turned upside down by refugee arrivals, first love, and a heartbreaking diagnosis. Growing up a farm girl, Peggy’s life has never been particularly exciting....
Trauma Beyond Time: Temporal Constructs in Holocaust Testimonies challenges our understanding of what it means to be a Holocaust survivor, arguing that the term “post-Holocaust” fundamentally misrepresents survivors’ experiences. Through careful analysis of Holocaust...
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East In this book,...
Forward by Jan Blumenstein Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II On his 16th birthday, June 5, 1944, Jan Blumenstein and his family are driven like livestock to the cattle cars outside of town. Today,...
Solutions to divorce abuse in Jewish societies Jewish Marital Captivity centers on the experience of women encountering systemic disadvantage in rabbinic marriage and divorce throughout Jewish history and across the map of Jewish life. In...
A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost worldBy the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth....
The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil...
Stumbling Blocks, a second-generation Holocaust memoir, tells Jennifer’s and Paul’s stories. Paul, Jennifer’s father, was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of ten, just after Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his...
