New Jewish Books
The Dramatic Events, Fateful Results, and Unlearned Lessons of Ancient Israel’s Political Suicide Israeli bestseller The Jewish March of Folly is a revolutionary history of the Jewish people that discovers ancient Israel’s forgotten civil wars, places...
A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025 From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country’s experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II. This book profiles...
An evocative work of historical fiction, Vivian’s Decision is an all too relevant story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one’s own. Vivian Jacobson is distraught to...
An unforgettable story of survival and resilience in the death camps of World War II. A miracle unfolded on October 10, 1944, at Auschwitz. Amidst the gas chambers and crematoria, a ragtag group of...
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment This book gives voice to the experiences of secularization based on much new and illuminating research, making it possible to observe the current, vociferous discourse in the context...
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review October 7, 2023, was a watershed event in contemporary Jewish history. What took place on that date challenged the two most basic assumptions of post-Holocaust...
Copper Divide chronicles one woman’s story of friendship tested by a society torn apart by an infamous labor strike and the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster. In 1913, a massive and violent copper miners’ strike...
The 1,400-Year History of Jewish – Muslim Relations From the prize-winning author of The Ottomans, a myth-busting history of Muslim–Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict.Today, the dominant narrative of the relationship between Jewish and...
Rethinking Diaspora The volume offers a broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major traditional Jewish languages of Europe: Yiddish, the language which arose in the Middle Ages amongst the Jews...
Jewish Culture and Contexts Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish studies The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American...
