Dear Darwish by Morani Kornberg-Weiss
The book at Amazon and on Kindle From Jewniverse Growing up in Tel Aviv, Morani Kornberg-Weiss only encountered the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, by chance. As a “voice from the other...
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Curious George Goes to Arkansas…From Nazi-Occupied France
You’ve probably known Curious George all your life, right? You remember when he pranked the fire department, when he got a job, and maybe even when he learned his ABCs. You might even know...
A New, Digital Wonderland of Jewish Text: Sefaria
Imagine a digital wonderland where every Jewish text is available free and open-source, where the extraordinary expanse of our texts are waiting to be combed, prodded, and commented upon by interested parties the world...
The Ladder by Hamutal Bar-Yose
For most of Israel’s existence, the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea has been discussed as the site of human conflict. But with the poem that opens the latest English translation...
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
What modern lovers refer to as “casual sex” was, at one time, known by a very different, very transgressive name. In 1973, Jewish American writer Erica Jong infamously published Fear of Flying, a radical...
Textile (Jewish Women Writers) by Orly Castel-Bloom
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Published in Hebrew in 2006, Textile features the quintessentially 21st-century coping mechanisms of the Grubers, a wealthy, anxiety-ridden family falling apart in a new, glitzy suburb of...
Half Empty Paperback by David Rakoff
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Rakoff died of cancer in August 2012 at the age of 47, and the final book published during his lifetime (his last novel will be published posthumously...
Cut Throat Dog by Joshua Sobol
The book at Amazon and on Kindle An Israeli spy narrowly escapes an assassination in the middle of the desert, before killing the assassin. Years later, in New York City, this spy bumps into...
Chinese Self-Help Books Teach You to Be Like the Jews
Head to the self-help or business section at a bookstore in China and you’re likely to see books with titles like Learn To Make Money With the Jews, and Jewish People and Business: The...
More All-Of-A-Kind Family Paperback by Sydney Taylor
All-of-a-Kind Family, the mid-century classic Sydney Taylor children’s series of Lower East Side literature, is back! And not in an “Oh how awful, they tarted up 80’s kid favorite Strawberry Shortcake” kind of way....
