New Jewish Books
The death of a child is perhaps the most painful, heartbreaking, and seemingly-unnatural experience we have the displeasure of living with. Yet it is difficult to say with certainty whether or not this sentiment...
In the months following the horrors of October 7th, Israelis wrote poems to express the nation’s feelings and emotions. Well-known poets alongside new fresh voices appeared daily on social media and in the literary...
From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself...
Or a Tale of Troubles, Secrets & Adventures in Panama, ‘Frisco and a Rough & Tumble Mining Camp. It’s 1852, and 13-year-old Itzik has a secret. He’s just discovered that his father has lost...
Illustrator: Chiara Fedele Gebyanesh Addisu teams up with co-author Arlene Schenker to turn her experiences as a young immigrant struggling in a new and strange place into a universal story about the importance of...
Epilogue: Mark Brandt Elisabeth “Ilse” Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March...
The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece, which Alfred Kazin called “A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence, and power.” According to...
Here are the 37 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
A Big Personality Cookbook of Delicious Jewish Favorites A must-have breakfast, brunch, and lunch cookbook brimming with recipes for Jewish comfort food—co-authored by the husband-and-wife team behind Montreal’s famous Arthurs Nosh Bar. Take a...
Provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers. Lot’s daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an...
