New Jewish Books
Translator, Introduction: Adi Mahalel In late 1920s Palestine, Zalmen has just arrived at Jaffa port on his way to a small northern kibbutz. Young and idealistic, he hopes to put down roots and help...
In the first work to bring crip aesthetics into conversation with Israel studies, Ilana Szobel explores disability culture and disability justice through the work of artists with disabilities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian...
In this remarkable book, Minna Bromberg lays bare the harm of anti-fat bias and the restorative potential for body liberation in Jewish tradition to confront fatphobia. Bromberg traces her own journey of identity formation,...
Translator: Dani James In this harrowing firsthand account of the Holocaust, survivor Tobias Schiff displays the depths of human suffering, the capacity for hope and renewal, and the impact of starvation on the human...
Translators: Vivi Lachs, Barry Smerin Through the words of twenty-six Yiddish writers, this book offers an unparalleled view into the life, labor, politics, and joys of London’s historical Jewish East End community, from its...
Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors Made in Michigan Writer Series This moving collection chronicles the personal and creative journey of Henry Hank Greenspan across five decades of sustained and deepening collaborations with...
The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building This fascinating biography recounts the life and legacy of a titan of American banking, Louis Graveraet...
This comprehensive collection considers Jewish women graphic novelists and the richly figured ways in which Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place: the spaces―emotional, geographical, psychological―that women inhabit. Through the intersections...
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam...
This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid has drawn the attention of...
