The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
The book at Amazon and on Kindle A new novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early...
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The Wall by H.G. Adler
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Drawing upon Adler’s own experiences in the Holocaust and his postwar life, The Wall, like the other works in the trilogy, nonetheless avoids detailed historical specifics. The...
New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene by Tamar Barzel
The book at Amazon Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, “Radical Jewish Culture,” or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn’s circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York’s...
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira
The book at Amazon and on Kindle David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about...
Childhood by Jona Oberski
The book at Amazon Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old...
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story by Maxim D. Shrayer
The book at Amazon and on Kindle A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and...
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of...
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Deceit and betrayal abound in this tale by first-time novelist Francesca Segal. Drawing upon Edith Wharton’s 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence, Segal spins a...
The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel; edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm
The book at Amazon and on Kindle How should we understand the international debate about the future of Israel and the Palestinians? Can justice be achieved in the Middle East? Until now, there was...
Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe, 2004-2012 by Loli Kantor
The book at Amazon Loli Kantor is the daughter of Holocaust survivors who lost nearly their entire families, and her desire to reconnect with her family’s history first took her to Poland in 2004....
