New Jewish Books
Introduction: Ilan StavansTranslator: Heath Wing The bestselling Brazilian satire, now available in English for the first time. Moacyr Scliar was the preeminent literary voice of the Jewish immigrant experience in modern Brazil. Now his...
Here are the 33 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
Here is the list of the 52 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in January 2022. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language...
In 2017,the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier...
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date...
Illustrator: Alex Peris Translators: Ilan Stavans, Eliezer Nowodworski, Frieda Press-Danieli, Randa Sayegh Daniel and Ismail, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, don’t know each other yet, but they have more in common than they...
Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual...
