Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000
The book at Amazon For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last...
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I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman
I Carry My Mother is a book-length cycle of poems that explores a daughter’s journey through her mother’s illness and death. From diagnosis through first yahrzeit (anniversary of death), the narrator grapples with what...
On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In the early 1920s, the Czernitski family escapes anti-Semitism in Russia by immigrating to Chicago. By the age of ten, Lena Czernitski has experienced many hardships, including...
Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
Editors: Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald The book at Amazon and on Kindle At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of...
Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this biography, Shlomo Avineri portraits Theodor Herzl’s intellectual and spiritual odyssey from a private and marginal individual into a Jewish political leader and shows how it...
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Adam D. Mendelsohn
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this fascinating book Adam D. Mendelsohn paints a vivid picture of how “rag picking” in nineteenth-century England and the United States served as the springboard for...
The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg
The book at Amazon and on Kindle This beautifully written novel, spanning from the 1920s to the present day, tells the story of several generations of a large Jewish family in California. The narrative...
A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to be Jewish by Joshua Eli Plaut
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond...
Asylum City by Liad Shoham
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this thriller from the author of Lineup, a young police officer’s investigation of a murder plunges her into the dark underworld of Tel Aviv. When young...
Jewish Women Writers in Britain by Nadia Valman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure...
