New Jewish Books
Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by...
Illustrator: Quentin Blake In a masterful new collaboration, personal poems and poignant art illuminate the experience of refugees and immigrants everywhere. That’s whyit can happen again.It does happen again.It has happened again. Some of...
Illustrator: Moran Yogev Every day young Nuri makes his way to the sea shore to eat some bread and throw a piece into the waves. He does so because his father told him to...
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown...
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling...
The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as...
A murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, police corruption,...
Translator: Ruth Wisse This story is a classic of modern Jewish literature and modern Jewish thought. Since its appearance in 1952, scholars, rabbis, and a very wide range of readers have continued debating the...
The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible. In...
Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its...
