New Jewish Books
Translated by Steven Capsuto Jewish Contributions to the Modern World In April 1911, Prague artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered nightly at the Café Louvre, an intellectual center where music was played and high-level...
An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses It Takes Two to Torah is not just an education, it’s an invitation – to join the oldest...
How Faith Defied Soviet Rule A portal into the perseverance of Jewish culture in the face of attempts to destroy it. To answer his son’s question: what was it like growing up in Samarkand? Rabbi...
A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the sequel to The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir. Both are soon...
Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first physician-responder to the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Information about the explosion was withheld...
Afterword: Rabbi Shira StutmanForeword: Rabbi Irving Yitzchak Greenberg A smart, hip and provocative book for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary questions. Should we edit our children’s genes? Are...
Bob Mankoff grew up Jewish in Queens, NY in the 1950s and 1960s. As a kid, he visited the Borscht Belt and reveled in the hilarious performances of some of the best Jewish comedians...
Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler’s army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Soon, the Gestapo closes in, determined to make the shtetele she lives in “free of Jews.” Until...
Editors: Sheldon Teitelbaum, Emanuel Lottem; Illustrator: Avi Katz This anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s. The stories included come from Hebrew, Russian, and English-language sources, and...
The Book of Norman probes Mormon-Jewish relationships and traditions with humor and thoughtfulness. A sibling rivalry erupts between brothers Norman and Jon Gould, who compete for their dead father’s soul in this wild theological...
