Bellow’s People by David Mikics
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art. Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century―the winner of the Nobel Prize in...
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Unexpected Israel: Stories You Never Read in the Media by Ruth Corman
Since 2011 Ruth Corman has traveled through the complex mosaic that is Israel to introduce readers to aspects of the country that never appear in the media the curious, the humorous, the moving and...
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo by Misha Klein
Being Jewish in Brazil—the world’s largest Catholic country—is fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and...
Strolling Through the Lower East Side With ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’
From Tablet Magazine A mother and daughter—both megafans of Sydney Taylor’s timeless kidlit—take a tour of Manhattan’s historic Jewish neighborhood By Marjorie Ingall “I’m totally a Henny,” I told my daughter Josie. “Everyone thinks...
49 Days: An Interactive Journal of Self-Development by Rivka Levy
49 Days is an interactive journal designed to help readers nurture their mindfulness, inner dimension and relationships. Over the course of seven weeks, readers are encouraged to focus on one area of inner work...
Poetica Magazine: Contemporary Jewish Writing (2016 Spring)
Poetry Editor: Michal Mahgerefteh Proofreader: Naancy Powell Outstanding writers included: Carol Alexander, Valerie Bacharach, Eva El Beze (France), Irene Bloom Grace Cavalieri, Alan Cohen (Israel), Leslie Cohen, Lilian Cohen (Australia) Ruth Fogelman (Israel), Jacqueline...
Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women’s Equality by Motti Inbari
In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women’s Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York. He reviews the history,...
May 2016 Jewish Book Carnival
The May Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod at Adventures in MamaLand. You can see the Carnival at http://www.mamaland.org/2016/05/jewish-book-carnival-may-iyyar-2016.html....
Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War by Martin Sugarman
This book contains dozens of accounts – both horrific and inspiring, amusing and sad – of the experiences of Jewish prisoners of war and internees from Commonwealth and Dutch forces imprisoned by the Japanese...
Forevermore: Three Documented Stories of Jewish Historical Figures Overcoming Oppression (WW II) by Shlomo Kalo
How a teenager, a rabbi, and a nobleman dealt with persecution, plight, and the powers that be throughout the complex history of the Jewish people. A masterpiece in three parts: nobleman Zabir Ben Bata...
