The inspiration for Stein's novel about the Six-Day War came from her late mother, who had lamented the lack of books about Israel for 8- to 13-year-olds.

Chaya Deitsch’s chronicle of her life in the Lubavitch community reveals an undisguised, wistful nostalgia for the culture she turned her back on.

Adam Kirsch’s brilliant, well-researched work looks at Jewish texts over the past 2,500 years.

Curt Leviant’s latest novel incorporates great moments of madcap comedy as well as pays homage to the world’s best postmodernist novelists.

Reviews of the latest from writers Adam LeBor and Jamie Metzl.

New titles for the youngest seder celebrants will add a touch of whimsy to your holiday library.

Shapiro has overlaid her story with the slightly implausible tale of the fictional Alizée Benoit, a promising French-born Jewish artist who mysteriously disappears.

As Philippe Sands writes in this indispensable book, “international law offered few constraints on the majority’s treatment of minorities and no rights for individuals."