New Jewish Books
Thirteen-year-old Jacob’s life is hard in 1920s Poland, where he lives in an orphanage for Jewish children. His days are brightened by playing in the orphanage mandolin orchestra. When an American benefactor arrives with...
Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily...
What happens when we follow Pirkei Avos and greet every person b’simcha, with a sehver ponim yafos? Exactly what you might imagine! In this cheerful, colorful picture book, each character shares a smile with...
Edited by: Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism – both as a unique cultural and religious category....
Growing up the son of a well-respected money manager, Marty Kaplan caught the investment bug early. Or maybe he just wanted his father’s approval. Either way, now in forties, Marty’s obsessed with becoming a...
From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. When I Grow Up is New Yorker...
W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that...
Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism In this volume, Arieh Saposnik examines the complicated relations between nationalism and religious (and non-religious) redemptive traditions through the case study of...
Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a ‘singularity, ‘ where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions...
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English humourist and writer. Zangwill wrote the influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase “melting pot” to...
