New Jewish Books
The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It...
Illustrator: Mackinzie Rekers An eerie noise in the night is disturbing the sleep of all the animals on Noah’s ark. None of the animals can identify the strange sound that has woken them up....
A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell. Welcome...
A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century How do you hold on to faith in a modern world? Rabbi Michael Strassfeld digs deep into the Jewish tradition to help us get to the root...
The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen...
A story of global travel, personal growth, and family responsibility through the lens of 15-year-old Jane in 1970. Fifteen-year-old Jane was trapped. Trapped in high school in Dallas, Texas where her classes were too...
Havana, Cuba. December 1958. Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of Castro’s revolution. One dark night, after rescuing of a leader of the revolt under house arrest, one brother finds himself hunted. The...
From acclaimed author Daniel Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz: a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphosis. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with...
When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria On a winter’s day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow’s Cafeteria...
In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, Tova Reich dives deep into the world of Orthodox Jewry—a world that her stories, like the shows “Unorthodox” and “Shtisel,” embrace with respect and affection while also...
