New Jewish Books
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...
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Jan Gross’s hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian’s disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens...
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the heart-rending and engrossing story of a close-knit Jewish family of five sisters who had to make some devastating medical decisions in order to keep...
