New Jewish Books
Set during the Holocaust, Violin is a haunting and lyrical exploration of love, loss, and survival. This is Chava’s story—a young Jewish girl whose innocence is shattered by the rise of the Nazi regime....
The Ship to America is a work of fiction based on the experiences of an extended Russian Jewish family fleeing oppression in Ukraine during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Seventeen-year-old Dave...
A life-long commitment to social evolution – and, occasionally, revolution – animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort’s debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort’s peripatetic poems reflect...
Games of Inheritance explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual...
Thoughts on “Here There Is No Why” by Philip Graubart Pain can be a powerful driving force in one’s actions, both in how it motivates certain behaviors and how it guides actions to avoid...
Only a few Westerns contain explicitly Jewish stories or themes, and very rarely do Old West tales involve identifiably Jewish characters. Yet Jewish contributors have shaped the Western—once Hollywood’s most popular genre—ever since the...
Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society...
A man who can’t forget. A woman who doesn’t want to remember. An ancient land, hostage to its past. Bavaria, 1933: Netanel Rosenberg’s family has lived in Germany for centuries. Their factory keeps a...
No grief should be privileged, and no grief should be silenced. A Prayer of Six Wings is an account of the poet Owen Lewis’s experience in the year following Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood Massacre on...
At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors’ homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children “inhabited.” Analyzing second- and third-generation...
