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Nonfiction Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
Excerpt Excerpt―Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Ashley Walters August 12, 2024
Nonfiction Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life Joshua Leifer
Excerpt Excerpt — The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom Adina Allen August 5, 2024
Nonfiction Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto Harry Freedman
Nonfiction Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories Mike Rothschild
Nonfiction Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century Miriam Eve Mora