New Jewish Books
A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In...
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with Tova Mirvis, author of The Ladies Auxiliary and The Outside World, about her newest novel, Visible...
From Jewniverse Help David Duchovny and Shalom The Pig Get to Israel by Sundown Maybe you first fell for David Duchovny as the DEA Agent in Twin Peaks. Or you tracked his every move...
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible, Bewilderments reflects on the book of Numbers. In the book of Numbers, what should have been for the Israelites...
Anonymous Soldiers re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial unrest that culminated in the end of British rule and the UN resolution to create two...
This book is composted of fascinating vignettes of the community of Jews encountered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birthplace. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five,...
Edited by Jonathan L Friedmann and Meeka Simerly This is an amazing book about Jewish women’s rights in the traditional world of religious practice. This is an important ongoing debate in the Jewish world....
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 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....
New this Fall The National Jewish Book Club is an exciting, accessible way to discover a new favorite or re-read an old one. Join book clubs across the country in reading excellent works of...
