New Jewish Books
Translator: Jeanne Bonner The stunning short story collection—available in English for the first time—that established Edith Bruck as a major figure in Italian literature. This Darkness Will Never End, the first short story collection...
It’s 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry....
A culinary journey across Eastern Europe, Kapusta celebrates the humble vegetables that have shaped some of the most vibrant culinary traditions in the world. Focusing on five key vegetables to the region – cabbage,...
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Jewish Books in North Africa delves into the multifaceted significance of books among North African Jews. From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, this exploration encompasses the history,...
A novel inspired by the ‘Japanese Schindler’, written by a woman who owes him her life In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his government and secretly issues...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist, this sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter’s death....
Translator: Genese Grill A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre―never before published in English. Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely...
This volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic world Longing and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the...
Translator: Michael Wex As one of only three survivors of the secret Ringelblum archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, Rachel Auerbach spent the rest of her life guarding the sacred flame of Holocaust memory. Finally...
From the beloved author of Hidden Truths comes a novel about take-charge sixth grader Bess Stein, who brings together friends and a group of rockstar librarians called the Book Warriors to fight a book...
