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Nonfiction The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View, Second Edition Gerard R. Wolfe; Joseph Berger, fwd.
Essay Beyond Words Yesterday, Boaz Yakin wrote about empathy and conflict. He will be blogging here for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning all week. Editor’s Note: The views… Boaz Yakin April 4, 2013
Nonfiction Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built Mark Russ Federman
Nonfiction Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld
Nonfiction City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Russ & Daughters Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis has been a great year for Jewish-interest foodie books. From the The Mile End Cookbook and Jerusalem, to JBC… Naomi Firestone-Teeter December 18, 2012
Visual Arts Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs
Essay Looking Up in New York Theodore Ross is the author of Am I a Jew?: Lost Tribes Lapsed Jews, and One Man’s Search for Himself. His writing has appeared in the pages (print and electronic) of… Theodore Ross September 24, 2012
Nonfiction From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture Paul Buhle
Nonfiction Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics and the Battle for the Soul of the City Jonathan Mahler
Nonfiction The Magnificent Seasons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports History and Uplifted a City and the Country Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman
