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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Interview From Generation to Generation, On a Chariot of Fire: A Conversation Between Siona Benjamin and Erica Lyons Isadora Kianovsky September 2, 2024
Nonfiction No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust Chris Heath
Nonfiction Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape Arthur J. Magida
Nonfiction Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
Nonfiction A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom Adam Jortner
Excerpt Excerpt — Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe Ken Krimstein August 19, 2024
Nonfiction Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Iris Idelson-Shein
Nonfiction (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
Nonfiction How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800‑1500 Ivan G. Marcus
Nonfiction Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins Jacob L. Wright
Nonfiction Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America Hasia R. Diner