New Jewish Books
Being a man I was not the primary target audience of the book, which bears the subtitle: “Building the Sacred through Challah“. But if Arthur Kurzweil could write a glowing forward for it, who am...
Questions of conversion have been amongst the most fraught issues on the internal Jewish agenda in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere. The rifts have grown wider given increasing rates of intermarriage in the...
A man from a small island at the periphery of an unnamed country close to Europe builds a boat and voyages to the capital of his kingdom. There are apparently no Jews on the...
Here is the list of books that made it here during the months of June and July 2015: Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone After the Holocaust: In spite of everything, I remain...
Two young sisters set out for fame and fortune in mid-twentieth century America—but this is only the surface story of the funny, sad, and fascinating journey Iris and Eva take in Amy Bloom’s new...
In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a...
Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job...
In this long-awaiting book, Marc Shapiro offers hundreds of examples where students, family members or printers have chosen to rewrite the past ‘by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit...
After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian’s beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to...
Part One: The Jewish Oil Magnates: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker Part Two: The Jewish Oil Magnates, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut The near-annihilation of Europe’s Jews in the Second World War destroyed not...
