The Vixen by Francine Prose
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper...
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Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and...
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner
The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like...
Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman’s first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), Monkey Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity― whether Jewish/Catholic, white/brown, native/expat―and...
Illuminated Sound: The Baal Shem Tov on Prayer by Dovber Pinson
In the year 1698 a great light was revealed to the world with the descent of the holy soul of the Baal Shem Tov. In time, the Baal Shem Tov became one of the...
Recipes for a New Beginning: Transylvanian Jewish Stories of Life, Hunger, and Hope by Kinga Júlia Király
Recipes for a New Beginning. Transylvanian Jewish Stories of Life, Hunger, and Hope is a literary and scholarly work, a cookbook, a cultural dictionary, and a memorial album of Transylvanian Jews. It is a...
Small Acts of Kindness: Striving for Derech Eretz in Everyday Life by Shalom Freedman
In a society such as ours, when doing good is the stuff of legend and hagiography, Freedman’s meticulous description of the constant struggle to be a good person and to do good for others...
The Jewish Body: A History by Robert Jütte
Translator: Elizabeth Bredeck An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object...
Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire by David Henryk Ropschitz
Editor: Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham It’s July 1940, Italy. A young Polish-born Jewish doctor, rendered stateless by the racial laws of 1938, is unable to flee the country. Henry Raupner is arrested and transported to Ferramonti...
The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire by Rachel Sharona Lewis
Congregation Beth Abraham expected their newest rabbi to “sing some songs and go to an environmental rally.” But Vivian Green has other ideas. She wants her flock to engage meaningfully with their city-special mayoral...
