New Jewish Books
The Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality Conference was the culmination of a nearly year-long research project on the topic of anti-Semitism in Hungary today. The subtitle of the conference, Appearance and Reality, was...
Translator: Ilana KurshanIllustrator: Assaf Benharroch This seems to be a simple story of a melody in search of a singer, but look a little closer and you will find echoes of an ancient Jewish...
A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation A Jewish child born into the worst of times in Europe grows up during the best of times in North America—only to recognize that it could be moving...
Negotiating Spaces and Identities Routledge Jewish Studies Series This radical critique, and comparative study, of postmodern Jewish culture, offers innovative readings of major contemporary writers in Israel and the English-speaking diaspora.
Here is the list of the 64 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in March 2022. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Recipes from a Sephardi Egyptian kitchen The author was born and brought up in Cairo, Egypt. She was expelled with her family in 1956 as a result of the Suez crisis and came to...
It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and...
Jewish Lives In the Bible Elijah is a zealous prophet, attacking idolatry and injustice, championing God. He performs miracles, restoring life and calling down fire. When his earthly life ends, he vanishes in a...
New Identities Across Time and Space The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from...
With David Brewster The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the...
