Laughing in Yiddish by Jamie Wendt
“To tell a long story short, Papa says, / and then proceeds to tell bits of a long story.” Poet Jamie Wendt does the same in her new collection Laughing in Yiddish, and through...
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In the Family Way by Laney Katz Becker
Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one...
The Trunk by Alberto Vigevani
Translator: Wil Schutt Alberto Vigevani’s The Trunk (originally La breve passeggiata), now available in English, is a poignant and lyrical portrait of an Italian-Jewish family navigating the rising tide of Fascism through the lens...
American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews by Andrew Porwancher
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacy A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the...
Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement by Daniel Taub
Fiercely divisive times call for radically different arguments. In our age of seemingly irreconcilable differences, argument is increasingly seen as a plague to be avoided or a contest to be won. Daniel Taub, an...
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy by Edward Hirsch
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet’s...
The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt by Michele L. Frederick, Abigail Rapoport
An exploration of how the biblical heroine Queen Esther, a symbol of resilience and a figure of immense popularity, was portrayed in seventeenth-century Dutch art In the age of Rembrandt van Rijn, the biblical...
The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years by Vincent Lemire
Illustrator: Christophe Gaultier The 4,000-year history of the city of Jerusalem unfolds in an exceptional graphic narrative that touches on the birth of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, as well as famous conquerors and mighty...
Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues by Jerry Portnoy
Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father’s rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early ’50s. After dropping out of college, he became...
Too Much Of Nothing: Notes on Feminism, Identity, and Womanhood by Carla Stockton
Stockton, a first-generation American boomer, recounts her life as a series of vignettes that begin with her mother’s escape from Europe before WWII and end with her own escape from a stifling marriage. Stockton’s...
