New Jewish Books
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...
Studies in Antisemitism Why do non-Jewish football fans chant “Yid Army” or wave “Super Jews” banners―especially in support of clubs that are not Jewish? The Making of “Jew Clubs” explores how four major European...
Nursing History and Humanities This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it...
Studies in Modern French and Francophone History Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a...
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in...
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized...
