Tagged: Jewish Book Council
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual scene In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in...
The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories tells the story of how cartoonist Asaf Hanuka illustrates both universal and particular narratives. Through close readings of Hanuka’s entire catalogue of comics and...
A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to...
A “dryly witty” (New Yorker) and “fabulously revealing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut about two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. It’s...
Illustrator: Steliyana Doneva Micah loved the noise maker, called a gragger, that he used at his family’s Purim party. With it they celebrated the defeat of the wicked Haman, a bully from biblical times...
A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of World War II, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places. Isa de...
Illustrator: Rivka Tsinman The creators of Hadar’s groundbreaking Devash Parashah Magazine are proud to introduce The Devash Megillat Esther! This beautiful volume includes the full Hebrew Megillah text, an original kid-friendly English translation, and...
Translator: Jessica Cohen Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life...
Translator: Dalit Shmueli Winner of The 2023 National Jewish Book Awards for Hebrew Fiction in Translation. Discover a rare glimpse into the secret world of Mossad spies and terrorists with Operation Bethlehem, a best-seller...
Translator: Paul Olchváry József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of...