New Jewish Books
Extraordinary Jewish Women This narrative biography for young adults brings to life the dramatic story of Doña Gracia Nasi, born in Portugal in 1510 into a Sephardic Jewish family forced to pose as Christians...
In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a...
He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. On this site I posted at least four of his books: two from his series on...
Editor: Samantha Talarico Vanessa Minkle and Simon Rosenstein meet and fall in love in the Warsaw Ghetto. Eventually, like so many others, they are shipped to Birkenau to work or die. He promises that...
Authors: Tod Jacobs MS and Peter Lynn MAPP A new book on marriage that combines Judaism and Positive Psychology. What is a great marriage? What does a healthy marriage even look like? If we...
I had set up the Facebook page (facebook.com/JewishBookWorld) and Twitter account (Twitter.com/JewishBookWorld) for this page exatly 7 years ago, on November 11, 2013. It is a good time to pause for a second and...
Sarah Goldman loves Hanukkah, and she’s thrilled to be appointed as vice chair of the Hollowville Hanukkah Festival. So when the festival is threatened with cancellation, she comes up with an idea: a new...
A scholar of law and religion uncovers a surprising origin story behind the idea of the separation of powers. The separation of powers is a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, but striking antecedents were developed...
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and...
Translator: Elisabeth Lauffer The Piano Student centers on an affair between one of the 20th century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles...
