The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology
Shocked by what she perceived as an egregious betrayal by her longtime psychotherapist, Susan Shapiro embarks on a quest for meaning in her part memoir, part self-help guide, The Forgiveness Tour (Skyhorse Publishing).
A Seat at the Table: A Novel of Forbidden Choices
Joshua Halberstam explains the genesis of this novel in his Acknowledgments: “Rummaging in the closet of my childhood home in Boro Park, I came upon a box filled with typewritten Chassidic stories. These were the tales my father wrote and read on the Yiddish radio station WEVD back in the
Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman Among Books
Winner of a Sami Rohr Choice Award, Ilana Blumberg’s memoir explores the tensions, struggles, and dreams of a young Jewish woman trying to find her place within Judaism.
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Thomas Buergenthal, the American judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague, is a scholar in the post-Holocaust field of international law and human rights. He is also a child survivor of Nazi labor and concentration camps.
Defiance
In 1986, representatives of the Organization of Partisans, Underground Fighters and Ghetto Rebels in Israel approached Holocaust scholar Nechama Tec to write a historical account of the Bielski partisan unit—the single most massive rescue operation of Jews by Jews.
Capturing the Moon: Classic and Modern Jewish Tales
On Friday mornings, Rabbi Ed Feinstein explains, he used to tell stories to the children in the Jewish day school where he served as principal, and on Friday nights, he gave sermons at his congregation—until he realized that grown-ups prefer stories too.
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
Having recently returned from a trip to the Polish town of my mother’s childhood, I was eager to see Mayer Kirshenblatt’s paintings of Jewish life in prewar Poland on exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York.
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story
Bruce Feiler opens up the Exodus story in a new way by viewing it through a different lens—the history of the United States of America. “For four hundred years, one figure stands out as the surprising symbol of America,” Feiler writes. “His name is Moses.” The claim seems at first
Day After Night: A Novel
In her best-selling novel, The Red Tent, Anita Diamant reimagined the lives of women in biblical times, the community of support between them, and their unmarked footsteps in history. Her new novel, Day After Night, seeks out a woman’s narrative in a real event that took place in Israel three
Good for the Jews: A Novel
Is it good for the Jews?” The title of Debra Spark’s novel uses a familiar expression for putting Jewish security at the center of every issue. It also sums up the different worldviews of two generations. Mose Sheinbaum, the 60-something hero of the book, judges all events by this litmus
The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions
Why a men’s Torah commentary, when the traditional rabbinic commentaries are all by men? “The great, often unspoken crisis facing modern liberal Judaism is the disengagement of its men,” writes Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin. Men, he believes, “need more and different entryways into Jewish study.” This book presents a paradigm
