New Jewish Books
The Man Who Stalked Einstein tells the little-known story of the antagonistic relationship between Albert Einstein and German physicist Phillip Lenard. Both men were German-born, brilliant scientists, Nobel Prize winners, and idealists. But their...
This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to...
When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family’s eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in...
Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking–as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers...
Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, A Master Plan for Rescue is a novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread...
When Ambrose Byrd, retired Buffalo soldier, arrives in the all-black town of Willow Bend, Mississippi, he’s looking for peace, but he walks into trouble. The town’s mayor, Jim Truehart, bought the land from his...
You shouldn’t read this book if: you think Yom Kippur is a kind of fish…you see a menorah and ask ‘is that from IKEA?’…you think a minyan is a cartoon character…you think seder is...
Sarah Shaw is a lawyer-turned-stay-home-mom struggling to raise two young sons while grieving the death of an infant daughter. While driving in Los Angeles one day, Sarah sees a homeless mother and child and...
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them...
