New Jewish Books
Foreword: Matt Goldish Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox communities? How...
Beyond the Tracks Book Felicia Hodaks’s vital botanical skills are the only thing keeping her away from the gas chambers. Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s ever-present brutality, Felicia tends to the plants needed for...
The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story Illustrator: Tim Ogline During Adolf Hitler’s rule over Germany, there were over 40,000 Nazi concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population...
My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability...
AD 878. Three mysterious figures board a Red Sea sailing vessel, Dressed as Muslims they are in fact, Jews, far away from their home in Babylon. They are on a secret mission to transport...
Illustrator: Monica Garofalo Noah is building an ark and Lionel and Dolores, a pair of hedgehogs, are there to make sure the plan goes off without a hitch. “But you’re so tiny,” Noah says,...
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and...
Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to realize biblical prophecies,...
Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Israel and moved to Brooklyn as a teenager. When he flunks...
Zina Abraham was born in an Uzbeki prison in 1933. It was a tumultuous time in Jewish history. Soviet Union annexed the territories of what is now Uzbekistan and the Stalinist regime had led...
