New Jewish Books
It’s Thanksgiving time and Amelie’s Bubbe and Nai Nai are visiting to celebrate the holiday. Amelie cannot wait for the delicious dinner of turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie! But, when Bubbe...
Illustrator: Emanuele Luzzati Translator: Ilana Kurshan A Snake, a Flood, a Hidden Baby: Bible Stories for Children features six popular stories from the Hebrew Bible retold with whimsy by one of Israel’s most celebrated...
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered reading that...
Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women’s lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors...
You know the stories of World War II. Now meet the people who lived them. In the final months of World War II, Sam Ryan takes his place as a new soldier in the...
When Eastern European Jewish immigrants bring their klezmer music with them to America, it takes on a rockin’ new vibe, adding elements of Jazz borrowed from its new country. In the beautifully illustrated Klezmer!,...
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a...
Join Rabbi Michoel and Rebbetzin Naama Oishie on a journey through Romania, Israel, and finally Kaluga, a small city in western Russia, where the couple has devoted their lives to rebuilding a once-thriving Jewish...
Edited by J.C.H. Blom, David J. Wertheim, Hetty Berg, Bart T. Wallet The two decades since the last authoritative general history of Dutch Jews was published have seen such substantial developments in historical understanding...
Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, is obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle. When a local child goes missing, Danny’s convinced it’s connected to an old...
