New Jewish Books
The gripping tale of the family and the world of Joseph Nana Njike, the man known as the Maker: the most powerful businessman, thinker and advocate of social solidarity of his time in the...
From Selfie to Groupie is a book of photographs and essays exploring the variety and intricacy of Jewish-American identity by Alina and Jeff Bliumis. The pair began their visual survey in the Russian-Jewish immigrant...
Published in the Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung-African Jewish Newspaper, 1952-54. Translated by Veronica Belling This collection of stories and anecdotes of life in early 20th century Lithuanian shtetls, sourced from the Johannesburg Yiddish newspaper, Afrikaner...
Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who is also a disgraced judge. After his father’s death, Matthew is a young man alone. He turns to his father’s...
Even Einstein Was Not Immune to Academic Jockeying An excerpt from Steven Gimbel’s new biography of the great scientist follows his quest for a permanent position, through Zurich after 1909 Between the correspondences, visits,...
Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen Translator: Eve Jochnowitz Foreword: Joan Nathan The book offers an ample choice of stewed dishes, blintzes, omelets, porridges, kugels, puddings, latkes, stuffed foods, sauces, baked goods,...
Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion, the opening of the human heart to God’s presence, to be the purpose of its entire edifice of praxis,...
The essays, opinion columns, speeches, and reviews that appear in this collection deal with a range of subjects of central concern to the American Jewish community. Offered from the perspective of one who has...
English translation by David E. Orton This book is the English translation of the new edition of the Copper Scroll of Qumran Cave 3 (3Q15). The restoration of the three sheets of copper by...
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)—author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America—illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish...
