New Jewish Books
Perspectives on Israel Studies Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose explores the life of a curious, if not mysterious, character in modern Jewish history. Born a French Catholic, Ruth Blau (Ben-David) (1920–2000)...
The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen...
Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz Editors: David N. Myers, Michael Berenbaum The late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position...
A story of global travel, personal growth, and family responsibility through the lens of 15-year-old Jane in 1970. Fifteen-year-old Jane was trapped. Trapped in high school in Dallas, Texas where her classes were too...
The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire Jews of Eastern Europe Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to...
Havana, Cuba. December 1958. Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of Castro’s revolution. One dark night, after rescuing of a leader of the revolt under house arrest, one brother finds himself hunted. The...
Putting God First: Jewish Humanism after Heidegger tackles the challenge of maintaining Jewish identity in a world dominated by Western humanism. It argues that the Holocaust reflects more broadly on contemporary humanism than the...
Can you imagine a whole college semester packed into a novel? If you read deeply enough–and motivated enough–that’s what you get in “Ephraim’s Bones” by David de Wolf. There is enough material in it...
From acclaimed author Daniel Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz: a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphosis. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with...
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
