New Jewish Books
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout Illustrator: Sammy Savos A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl’s fight for survival in Nazi...
A guide to joyful Teshuvah Serving Hashem with joy is the primary way to reach elevated levels in our avodas Hashem. Failure and mistakes are inevitable, and feeling down about those mistakes only impedes...
Set against a backdrop of a suburban Maryland synagogue, Wild Irish Yenta dishes on interfaith marriage, misbehaving clergy, and the beauty of religious traditions. When the body of custodian Roberto Gomez is found in...
The heroes of the book “The Shtetl Book” are residents of the small Jewish town of Yavoritsy, who were faced with formidable otherworldly forces. Daniel Kluger defined the genre of his book as a...
Translator: Joan Seliger Sidney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French-Jewish poet, translator, and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in...
Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and...
Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish...
Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust From Schmelt Camp to “Little Auschwitz”: Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust is the first in-depth study of the second largest Auschwitz subcamp, Blechhammer (Blachownia Śląska), and its lesser known...
A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance In this debut graphic memoir, New York-based artist Ari Richter weaves together two haunting stories – his grand- and great-grandparents’ imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz,...
To save his family’s failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut. Ezra Friedman sees ghosts,...
