New Jewish Books
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....
Employing geographical and political structures to her analyses, Laini Kavaloski argues that spatial forms that represent boundaries such as walls, ghettos, and war zones together with the artistic renderings of emotion, gendered experiences, and...
Some secrets are worth a crown… Born second in line for the Swedish throne, Prince Harald has always lived in someone else’s shadow. At the elite Riddarhuset Military Academy, the bookish prince feels lost...
A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life. When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as...
The Yiddish Historians in Their Own Words. Selected Writings Newly Translated into English In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish,...
The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis Translator: Rachel Staynton A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion. Four days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945, a young...
Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies For the first time, this collection makes available a selection of documents on the history of Jews in old Rus’ that provide unique insight into Slavic–Jewish relations, offering both...
This picture book shares the story of dyslexic Jewish basketball star Tamir Goodman’s successes as player and coach.
