New Jewish Books
Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Ruta Sepetys, this sweet, summery romance set in Nantucket follows seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg as she uncovers a secret about her grandmother’s life during WWII. Seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg...
Jews and Armenians are often perceived as peoples with similar tragic historical experiences. Not only were both groups forced into statelessness and a life outside their homelands for centuries, in the 20th century, in...
Illustrator: Clair Fink One snowy day in Brooklyn, James and Sally discover that they have new neighbors next door-a girl named Tovah and a boy named Esair. When James and Sally spy a menorah...
In A Collage of Customs, Mark Podwal’s imaginative and inventive interpretations of woodcuts from a 16th-century Sefer Minhagim (Book of Customs) allow readers of this volume to see these historic images in a new...
German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 German and European Studies When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life....
Foreword: Eric H. Cline In AD 132 began the bloody struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at...
Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy...
Illustrator: Avi Katz Yitzy gets sick before a birthday party and wonders how it could be a good thing. With the help of his family, he learns an important lesson on gam zu letova.
The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has...
