New Jewish Books
The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger...
Jewish Lives The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis in modern Judaism “Accessible, informed, and balanced. . . . The author manages to tread on fragile ground with...
A Family Saga From Concentration Camp to Gold Mining Empire Editor: Juliette Lachemeier She inherited a legacy of ambition, betrayal, longing and secrets. In the shadow of Poisson Gold, a multi-billion-dollar gold mine conglomerate,...
How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God?...
Psychoanalysis and Wisdom applies psychoanalytic insights into one of the great examples of wisdom literature, the Ethics of the Fathers, an ethical tractate of the Talmud. Paul Marcus quotes key passages from the Ethics...
From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his...
An index of fascinating facts and stories When exploring many areas of Torah, it can often be difficult to understand the context of the maamarei Chazal. Why are these Sages arguing? What is the...
For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, twelve years after a devastating tragedy upended...
Traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested...
The Sikarikin: A fight for freedom or the road to destruction? It is 66 CE. Jerusalem seethes under Roman occupation. The bloody fratricide and subsequent war against the occupier are seen through the eyes...
