New Jewish Books
Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond A joyous celebration of Ethiopian Jewish cuisine: more than one hundred accessible and healthy recipes, stories, and traditions from the intersection of the...
Translator: Rose Waldman “It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, ‘My enemies are the people in my own home.’” The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of...
The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devastating collision course. “Part thriller, part Hollywood satire, Lucky Dogs is a brash, sometimes heartbreaking saga...
The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names...
Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, at a critical juncture in their country’s history, by a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent...
In the fourteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race. In the title...
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each...
Tony Award–winning actor and playwright, revealing never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career Harvey Fierstein’s legendary career has transported him from community theater in...
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls...
The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity...
