New Jewish Books
The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, making this area one of the most infamous mass murder sites...
How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung...
New Jewish Fiction Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Charley Bernstein works in the London art...
In 1985, they met by chance. As a young guitarist and violinist, Jake and Cait created something transcendent each time they locked eyes and finished each other’s musical phrases…. until the music stopped. Forty...
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II Before the start of WWII, some 93,000 Jews lived in Latvia. Almost half of them, 43,000 people, resided in Riga. Only 14,000 survived WWII. Valentīna Freimane’s memoir Farewell...
Illustrator: Steve Pileggi Yael has a new neighbor! It’s Gila, a girl with Down syndrome. Join Yael as she befriends Gila and learns that Hashem makes each of us in our own special way...
From the author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a swoonworthy romance bursting with wit about a therapist who falls for the wrong man…but perhaps the right one was hiding in the margins all...
Illustration: Alice Priestley Shmuel is eager to help support his poor family, but no one in his shtetl is interested in hiring a ten-year-old boy. One day, the village installs new electric lamps, bringing...
An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry. In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it...
The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity Maria was eight months old in 1942 when a childless couple found her, wrapped in a blanket, at the...
