New Jewish Books
Touted as the “Jerusalem of the Balkans,” the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the...
They were on the barricades from the avenues of Petrograd to the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto, from the anti-Franco struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance. Before the Holocaust, Yiddishland was a vast expanse of...
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz, features an interview with TK Thorne, author of two Biblical novels, Noah’s Wife and Angels at the Gate, which is...
Midnight In Berlin James MacManus April 19th, 2016 Thomas Dunne Books Midnight In Berlin by James MacManus is a fictional story that takes readers through the harrowing months that ultimately led up to WWII....
by Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt n 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant...
Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all. In Holocaust: An American Understanding, renowned...
Two women’s lives collide when a priceless Russian artifact comes to light. Tanya Kagan, a rising specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia’s wealthy oligarchs...
There may be no loss as devastating as losing one’s child. Who then could fault the Jacobsons, overwhelmed by anguish, for accepting the help of a scientific cabal promising to clone their son Joey?...
Modern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn...
An epic romance retrieves from oblivion the lost story of the Holocaust of North African Jews Silvana Haggiag is a brilliant and beautiful young woman in her early twenties, dismissive of the patriarchal norms...
