New Jewish Books
Edited by Rabbi Pini Dunner Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest is a powerful firsthand account of life inside a Southern California residential facility for recovering psychiatric patients-as told by an unlikely observer, George...
This is a book of elegies, meditations, and dreams. It’s a book about connections and disruptions. It’s a book about time, how quickly it slips through our fingers and how it never ends. In...
Edited by Michelle U. Campos and Or Aleksandrowicz The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in...
For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas,...
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture—its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics—from...
Lea Koenig, one of the most loved and appreciated Jewish actresses among audiences and critics alike, sat down with Dr. Yaniv Goldberg for conversations about theater and life. In the conversations, Lea talks about...
In his latest collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one’s life. Weaving together a charming...
Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent–if perplexing–participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a...
This is a vivid, true story of Soviet Russia during the last decades of the USSR. It provides a lesser-known insider’s view that breaks stereotypes. As a daring memoir of a young woman searching...
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his...
