New Jewish Books
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force–irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety,...
Judaism has always been of great significance to Christianity but this relationship has also been marked by complexity and ambivalence. The emergence of new Protestant confessions in the Reformation had significant consequences for how...
Illustrator: Andre Ceolin Take a deep breath in . . . I am the giant fish that swallowed Jonah . . . and exhale slowly.I am Miriam, the dancer. Feel the stories of the Bible come to...
Illustrator: Michel KichkaTranslator: Shira Atik A big sister in an Israeli family draws pictures as she eagerly anticipates her baby sister waking from her nap. She lovingly describes the baby, imagining all the things...
A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to...
A stirring true story, riveting and touching about a Director of Field Operations of the Israel Security Agency September 2000. The Al-Aqsa Intifada, a violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority breaks out,...
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political,...
Here is the list of the 52 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in June 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Editor: Tiffany Gabbay It’s been two thousand years after most Jews were exiled from Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land, and two generations since the Holocaust led to the founding of modern...
A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff’s best friends risked...
