The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
As scientists learn more about disease-causing mutations in the Ashkenazi Jewish gene pool, it becomes increasingly urgent for couples in this demographic to undergo genetic testing before having children.
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One
Raising Secular Jews
More than two million Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1924, the majority of them secular.
The Book of Fathers
For twelve generations in the Csillig family, the firstborn son would record his memories in a journal called “the book of fathers” and pass it down to his own son—beginning with Kornél Csillig, who started the journal to record his life’s events from the time he returned to Hungary from Germany
The Dove Flyer: A Novel
Eli Amir was 13 years old when his family left Baghdad for Israel in 1950. They spent their first seven years in Israel living in tents, and the trauma of that experience led him to devote his career to issues of immigrant absorption.
Homesick: A Novel
Eshkol Nevo’s debut novel presents a distinctively young and fresh image of contemporary Israel.
Gratitude: A Novel
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, this novel reflects the situation of Hungarian Jews, the last Jewish community in Europe left standing in 1944, through the stories of a single family.
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.
The Frozen Rabbi
Master of Jewish magical realism Steve Stern begins his latest novel with this strange scene: Bernie Karp, an adolescent in suburban Memphis, discovers an old man frozen in a block of ice in his parents’ basement food freezer.
Leaving Lucy Pear
Award-winning novelist Anna Solomon’s second novel Leaving Lucy Pear, now out in paperback, is a masterfully woven web of ambition and lies.