New Jewish Books
A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel about family, friendship, success, and exhilarating self-(re)discovery. Pippa Jones is a fortyish former literary...
Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? SWEET MALIDA is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short...
Braids is the debut cookbook from chef and writer Sonya Sanford. This beautifully photographed book reflects the process of creating something new, and wholly delicious, from the seemingly disconnected strands of a life lived...
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature,...
One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris Translators: Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician....
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity...
A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place...
Translator: Romy Ronen Every night, Dora’s dad puts her to bed, but tonight Dora doesn’t want to go to sleep yet, so instead she decides to ask her dad a question. “Just one more...
Translator: David Stromberg Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Writings On Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate’s Yiddish and English oeuvre. David Stromberg,...
Translator: Gilah Kahn-Hoffman From one of the most important voices in contemporary Hebrew literature, the gripping story of a reunion between two family members that brings back a long-forgotten past and reveals secrets that...
