New Jewish Books
This book is composted of fascinating vignettes of the community of Jews encountered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birthplace. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five,...
Lev Pearlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife Josephine and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev’s and Josephine’s viewpoints, Part I...
Bo Lidegaard, the editor in chief of Denmark’s leading newspaper,Politiken, and a former diplomat in the Danish Foreign Service, has written what should become the definitive history of how the Danes saved more than...
This powerful novel tells how a hard-driving mother toughens her son up to fight his way out of poverty in South Africa. A third-generation South African Jew, the author has produced an absorbing first...
With his memoir Little Failure, acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart brings the reader through his asthmatic childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia and across the ocean as his family immigrates to the United States. We watch...
Why are we familiar with the writings of Freud, Jung, and Piaget, but not those of Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), who worked closely with each of them in the formative years of their careers? Spielrein’s...
A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it “birth” and still she can’t locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the...
Confident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals. In the powerfully affecting opening...
Poxl West fled the Nazis’ onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz’s rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his...
Why Not Say What Happened is at once a coming-of-age story, an intellectual autobiography, and cultural history. Morris Dickstein evokes his boisterous and close-knit Jewish family, his years as a yeshiva student that eventually...
