New Jewish Books
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheist In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community...
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East In this book,...
An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hope Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life In small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish...
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt...
Pulitzer Prize Winner Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of...
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other...
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacy A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the...
Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony The Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and...
The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese...
