New Jewish Books
Mrs. Kaplan Mysteries Combining the classic charms of Agatha Christie with the delightful humor of M. C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin novels, Mark Reutlinger’s Mrs. Kaplan mystery series returns as a notorious crank meets an...
My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom Robert Ratonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, in January 1938, a critical year in world history. In March of that year, Nazi Germany annexed Austria...
Cover Art: Pierre Le-TanTranslator: Natasha Lehrer It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn’t seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged...
Illustrator: Denise Damanti Maddie has just moved to Israel and is excited to celebrate the Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd with her new friend Orly. But what about her own favorite fall holiday, Thanksgiving?...
The Hidden History of a Jewish Entrepreneur in Nazi Germany Afterword: Robert RotenbergTranslator: Jonathan Reeder In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors,...
Illustrator: Ben Whitehouse Everyone knows that Big Larry makes the best latkes in town. This year he is throwing a Hanukkah party for all this friends, and the latkes need to be extra special....
Illustrating and documenting one thousand years of Jewish self-government in Polish and Lithuanian lands, this pioneering volume offers sources on Jewish communal organisation, civil and religious leadership, state policies, legislative projects, and the eastern...
Editors: Menachem Butler, Jay M. Harris, Uriel Katz Professor Jacob Katz (1904-1998) was one of the giants of Jewish scholarship in the 20th century. There is virtually no aspect of Asheknazic Jewish life in...
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, analyzes how food...
The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of...
