New Jewish Books
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of thirty of the boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces. Bar-Zohar and Mishal depict in electrifying...
After being expelled from Oberlin for hallucinogenic drug use, Izzy Edel seeks out his estranged father—a Polish Jew turned Israeli soldier turned New York street vendor named Alojzy who is reported to be missing,...
And that is the point of Ron Wolfson’s game changing book: that connecting Jews to synagogues, Jewish organizations, and to Judaism itself is all about relationships (or what I have called connectedness in my...
Stolen Legacy is a non-fiction historical narrative centered on a Jewish family’s legal battle to reclaim ownership of a building stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. The building at Krausenstrasse 17/18 in Berlin...
For much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. Pastrami on Rye is a full-length history of the New York Jewish deli....
Two brothers are admitted to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital with horrific injuries. Their mother, a young American, devoutly recites Psalms at the bedside, refusing to answer any questions. Brought in to investigate, Detective Bina Tzedek...
A Poet of the Invisible World is the story of Nouri, a boy born in thirteenth century Persia with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he’s taken into a Sufi order,...
Over the course of her 81 years (1898-1979), Peggy Guggenheim amassed art and financially sustained artists, despite the turmoil often found in her life. Born into a world of privilege, she suffered the loss...
When Christopher Columbus set out to discover the New World, was it because he wanted to serve the king and queen of Spain or because he wanted to escape them? Did he have stronger...
Bestselling author Emily Liebert burst onto the scene in 2010 with her wildly popular book Facebook Fairytales, a media sensation that sparked intense conversation about the positive power of Facebook. Since then, she’s captivated...
