New Jewish Books
An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts. Following The People and the Books, which “covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish...
Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of a Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life’s central riddle: Are we ever done leaving...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman...
Here is the list of the 80 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each...
Sparks from the Sedrah is a journey into the depths of the Torah. The Torah does not surrender its secrets easily; one must immerse in a labor of love to gain an understanding of the...
The first contemporary analysis of Bedouin and biblical cultures sheds new light on biblical laws, practices, and Bedouin history Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds...
Eli’s Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras―Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the...
Illustrator: Jessica Tamar Deutsch Young Esther is terribly upset. She has spent her entire life in Brooklyn, New York, and now, her family is moving to far away San Francisco. But Esther doesn’t like...
As only the second person in history to be awarded the PEGOT (Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), Marvin Hamlisch has quite an incredible story. This graphic novel adaptation of the biography of the renowned...
