New Jewish Books
What’s the cost of pursuing one’s passion? Nate is searching for a lost painting looted from his Jewish ancestors during the Holocaust. He’s convinced that its discovery is the key to restoring his family,...
During the Collapse of the Bronze Age, 1251 BCE to 1240 BCE How and why did a beautiful “harlot” help Joshua conquer the idol-worshipping, walled Canaanite city of Jericho soon after the formerly enslaved...
Thoughts on “Here There Is No Why” by Philip Graubart Pain can be a powerful driving force in one’s actions, both in how it motivates certain behaviors and how it guides actions to avoid...
In April 1949, gifted silversmith Moishe Azani presses a note into the hand of an American pilot who has just delivered hundreds of Yemeni Jews like himself to the Promised Land of Israel. For...
Did Chaim Lerner, acclaimed Israeli author and Holocaust survivor, kill himself in 1983, thirty-eight years after surviving Auschwitz? If so, was it traumatic memories finally catching up to him? Or despair over Holocaust denialism?...
The first thing that grabbed me in Frederic Petrovsky’s novel was its style. The sense of awe stayed with me as I kept reading the book and noticed how it became versatile and always...
When you part company with the life you’ve been living, how do you start a new one?While trying to sort out the answer to this question–along with the question of what being Jewish meant...
Memoir of an Academic While Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic is about leadership, it is not a handbook on how to be a leader. When her parents moved from New...
AMSTERDAM, 1941. Hanna is a young Jewish woman who is eager to have a child of her own, despite the harrowing conditions the family is facing. Nine months later, Hanna and her husband, Nico,...
At the behest of rogue Iranian government officials, two terrorists break into the grave of an American veterans cemetery in the Suresnes suburb of Paris. What they take from that grave could lead to...
