The Judgment of YoYo Gold by Isaac Blum
A smart and powerful story set in the Orthodox Jewish community about what it means to fit in, break out, and find your own way, by the award-winning author of The Life and Crimes of...
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Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story by Erica Stern
A genre-bending expedition into the treacherous, untamed frontier of childbirth As she prepared to give birth to her first child, Erica Stern envisioned the idyllic experience promised by prenatal classes and diaper commercials. But...
Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement by Daniel Taub
Fiercely divisive times call for radically different arguments. In our age of seemingly irreconcilable differences, argument is increasingly seen as a plague to be avoided or a contest to be won. Daniel Taub, an...
The Palace at the End of the Sea by Simon Tolkien
A young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity―and a cause―at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in a thrilling, timely, and emotional historical saga. New York City,...
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy by Edward Hirsch
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet’s...
Liberal Jewish Anti-Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, A Primary Source Reader by Jack Ross (Editor)
Introduction: Mark Glickman To the extent Jewish historians have recalled the American Council for Judaism at all, the picture they have left has been a badly distorted one. Far from a marginal voice among...
Son of the Shoah by Martin Herskovitz
Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor In this book of poetry, Martin Herskovitz, the son of Holocaust survivors, manifests a language of remembrance that describes not the desolation and destruction, but rather the possibility...
Misophonia by Dana Vowinckel
Translator: Adrian Nathan West In the vein of Fleishman is in Trouble and Elif Batuman—an insightful, heartfelt, and hilarious debut exploring cultural diaspora through one teenager’s summer across Berlin, Jerusalem, and Chicago. It’s another...
The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt by Michele L. Frederick, Abigail Rapoport
An exploration of how the biblical heroine Queen Esther, a symbol of resilience and a figure of immense popularity, was portrayed in seventeenth-century Dutch art In the age of Rembrandt van Rijn, the biblical...
Jacob Mann: A Centennial Review by Stefan Reif, Richard Sarason (editors)
Jacob Mann (1888-1940), a major figure in the fields of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature, was an early user of the Cairo Genizah materials to improve our understanding of these fields. This volume,...
