New Jewish Books
Studies in Antisemitism Why do non-Jewish football fans chant “Yid Army” or wave “Super Jews” banners―especially in support of clubs that are not Jewish? The Making of “Jew Clubs” explores how four major European...
Nursing History and Humanities This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it...
Studies in Modern French and Francophone History Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a...
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in...
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized...
The Great Isaiah Scroll lives up to its present-day name: with its over 7 meters, it preserves a complete text of one of the most extensive Hebrew Bible books. Leading experts in Dead Sea...
A modern prophet looks back on seven decades of activism. Ask an expert who are the 5 most influential American Jewish leaders of the last century and Rabbi Arthur Waskow will make most of...
The author of Escape to Florence returns with a thrilling adventure set in the war-torn 1940s and inspired by true events, about a young woman who risks everything to help Jewish Italians flee the fascists, and...
This anthology, translated, edited, annotated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back includes 77 Hebrew poems about Jerusalem, written by 41 modern Hebrew poets. The book is in a bilingual format, Hebrew originals facing Back’s...
“Mimi, it’s me. Nick,” he whispered, his Nazi uniform a mockery of the boy who once promised to protect her. She stared through her tears at eyes she’d never forgotten—now belonging to the enemy....
