New Jewish Books
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,...
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....
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...
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...
During the past sixty-eight years, Israel’s population has increased from one to eight million people. Such exponential growth has produced acute environmental and social crises in this tiny country. Alon Tal, one of Israel’s...
Twelve-year-old Michael Kraus began keeping a diary while he was still living at home in the Czech city of Nachód but continued writing while a prisoner at Theresienstadt (Terezín). When he was shipped with...
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth...
The Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient cultural ritual has changed radically since then, evolving with the times and adapting to local conditions. For many Jewish-American...
When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology...
Ephraim Epstein is an astonishing 19th century immigrant so bound to truth that he constantly reinvents himself, even at the cost of what he holds most dear. This is a true story told as...
