New Jewish Books
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is...
The Catskills are a place on the map that you can visit any time. The Borscht Belt is a place in the heart that you can only visit in the memories of we who...
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual scene In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr opened his campaign for the 2024 presidential election on April 2023. Since then, rumors swirled about him in the social media, and he was accused – between other things –...
The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories tells the story of how cartoonist Asaf Hanuka illustrates both universal and particular narratives. Through close readings of Hanuka’s entire catalogue of comics and...
Thoughts on “Amy Unbound” by Martin Sneider It could not have been more appropriate that I read most of Amy Unbound by Martin Sneider during Passover as the book’s and the holiday’s main theme...
Illustrator: Sophia Vincent Guy A quiet, joyful story celebrating a Jewish mother’s tradition of making challah with her child merges a lyrical text with stunning illustrations—and includes the author’s favorite recipe. Melt into the...
A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to...
A Historical Novel untertauchen. Ger., verb, (1) to dive, plunge; (2) submerge (as a submarine); (3) to disappear, get lost (intentionally), to go underground. Untertauchen is an historical novel, based on the true story...
A “dryly witty” (New Yorker) and “fabulously revealing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut about two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. It’s...
