New Jewish Books
The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan....
Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and...
An Exuberant Discovery of Sephardic Food, Family, and Faith What happens when the nice Jewish boy you end up marrying comes not from New York but from Casablanca? Who considers chicken soup little more...
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner calls on the voices of his father and grandfather to weave a powerful story about the enduring challenge of holding a family together in the face of an...
The Modern Jewish Experience Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among...
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam...
The Modern Jewish Experience Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner...
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan...
To those around me—my friends, my colleagues, even my daughter—I appear normal, but in one very fundamental way, I am not. The old me left with my wife. I’m not sure who this new...
