New Jewish Books
Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras,...
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in December 2015 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
From Tablet Magazine: The first novel I ever read was by Herman Wouk. Now, 60 years later, he’s publishing yet another one. By Morton Landowne When I became a senior citizen a few years...
Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of...
Creating a Collection is an invaluable resource for new Judaic libraries. In this revised edition of AJL’s annotated non-fiction collection development guide, our editors have added many recent titles and expanded the list of...
Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question...
Sidenote first: the 1000th post was published on this site sometimes in December. And now here is the list of books that made it here during the month of December 2015: Anne Frank and the...
Welcome back to Hereville, where Mirka, the world’s first time-traveling, monster-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, faces her greatest challenge yet: babysitting! Mirka just wants to find new adventures, but instead she’s stuck babysitting her disapproving...
What inspires someone to wake up one day and kill their neighbor? How do communities internalize and remember periods of intense violence and hatred? How do those memories shape our identities and relationships going...
In his intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a memoir of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love—award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate and discerning eye on the legacy of his...
