New Jewish Books
Translator: Rachel Mines With his intense, quickfire psychological fiction and consistent portrayal of characters’ subconscious minds, Jonah Rosenfeld is a standout among Yiddish authors of the early twentieth century. In his dedication to observing...
Principles and Pressures The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from...
Translator: Haim Watzman A magisterial biography of Israel’s first president. In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first...
Jews in Eastern Europe In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning...
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...
