Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable story has remained a mystery until now. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s,...
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Tell Me How This Ends Well by David Samuel Levinson
In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political,...
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired modern leader. A native-born Israeli, Rabin became an inextricable part of his...
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed author (“One of the greatest writers of the age” –The Guardian): a young Holocaust survivor takes his first steps toward creating a new life in the newly established state...
Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka
Peter Wortsman, translator, Afterword In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka’s entire opus of short prose–including works published in the author’s brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and letters–for narratives...
April 2017 Jewish Book Carnival
The April Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Yael Shahar at the Memory & Redemption blog. You can see the Carnival at...
Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam by Fawzia Gilani-Williams
Two neighbors—one Jewish, one Muslim—have always been best friends. When they both fall on hard times, can they find a way to help each other? In Fawzia Gilani’s retelling of this folktale—which has both...
Vulture in a Cage: Poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Raymond P. Scheindlin, translator “Vulture in a cage,” Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world...
The Girls of Usually by Lori Horvitz
Winner: 2015 USA Best Book Award, Gay & Lesbian Non-Fiction Honorable Mention: 2015 Rainbow Awards Finalist: Saints & Sinners Emerging Writer Award — Lori Horvitz grew up ashamed of her Eastern European Jewish roots,...
Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside by Emily C. Rose
An absorbing look at the daily lives of rural Jews in eighteenth and nineteenth century Germany. Includes over 75 black and white illustrations, a guide for researchers, maps, and a bibliography.
