{"title":"Books | New Releases","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"fools-kabbalah","title":"Fool's Kabbalah","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"220\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\"\u003eIn this richly layered novel, acclaimed author Steve Stern intertwines history, mysticism, and dark humor to explore the aftermath of the Holocaust and the enduring power of redemption.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"303\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\"\u003eThe narrative follows two distinct yet thematically connected characters:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"515\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"409\" class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"409\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"326\"\u003eGershom Scholem\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\"\u003eThe renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism is commissioned by the Hebrew University in 1946 to recover sacred Jewish texts looted by the Nazis. As he journeys through the devastated landscapes of Europe, Scholem grapples with the irony of salvaging books that have outlived their owners, leading him to confront the mystical teachings he once studied purely academically.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.netgalley.com\/book\/479083\/reviews?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"flex h-6 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2.5 text-[0.5625em] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between absolute\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ms-1 -me-1 flex h-full items-center rounded-full px-1 text-[#8F8F8F]\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"515\" class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"515\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"432\"\u003eMenke Klepfisch\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\"\u003eA fictional shtetl jester whose antics both amuse and unsettle. Living in the Polish village of Zyldzce during the Nazi occupation, Menke uses humor as a means of resistance and survival, embodying the concept of the \"holy fool\" found in Jewish tradition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"602\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\"\u003eThough their paths never cross, Scholem and Menke are connected through a mysterious kabbalistic text and their shared use of humor to confront unimaginable horrors. Stern's narrative delves into themes of loss, memory, and the mystical aspects of Jewish identity, offering a unique perspective on the challenges of preserving culture amidst devastation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46699150311591,"sku":"9781685891657","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/3875\/6519\/files\/81giJt3RZGL._SL1500.jpg?v=1756919573"},{"product_id":"fear-no-pharaoh-american-jews-the-civil-war-and-the-fight-to-end-slavery","title":"Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. 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Determined to stop them, he signs on with the Coordinating Office of Information (COI), a newly formed US spy agency. His first assignment: travel to the Yucatan and infiltrate a group of German spies and collaborators—including Estelle, a beautiful British woman he fell in love with in Spain, and whom he fears may have betrayed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Yucatan Solly encounters a band of European exiles, not all of them who they claim to be. With his contacts dropping like flies, danger lurks at every turn. But with the Nazis only a few hundred miles from the US coast and making plans for an invasion, there is no time to lose, and no one Solly trusts to track them down and stop them but himself. 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As Josephine navigates the treacherous landscape of wartime espionage, she forms an unexpected alliance—and romance—with the enigmatic Gabriel, an undercover Allied agent. Their bond deepens amidst the chaos, but when Josephine sacrifices her freedom to ensure Gabriel's escape, she must confront the brutal realities of war alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"1272\" class=\"\"\u003eOriginally published in Hebrew, this gripping debut novel is a striking example of contemporary Israeli fiction that bridges national histories and moral landscapes. 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data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Sasha Perelman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Longest Road asks a universal question: What are you carrying that does not belong to you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Mexican jungle, Sasha Perelman confronts how scarcity became an inherited wound across generations of women: her grandmother's fierce practicality born of war and grief, her mother's survival-driven control, her own relentless drive to prove her worth. Yet within these patterns lies an unexpected revelation-the extraordinary ability to transform limitation into possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Longest Road, Sasha unearths the lineage of Soviet Jewish survival that shaped her life long before she was born. Through a series of powerful plant medicine ceremonies, she steps into the memories and unspeakable secrets of her ancestors, and begins to understand the deeper forces behind her family's escape from the former USSR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisions reveal acts of defiant courage: an aunt who transformed a pair of brown leather boots into a brilliant strategy for securing exit visas; a grandfather, her namesake, whose final sacrifice opened the path to freedom in America, clandestine matzo operation under threat of imprisonment. In witnessing these stories, Sasha begins to grasp not only what they endured, but what she has carried forward on their behalf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she faces her mother's death, her grandmother's sharpened love, and the pressure of being the first American-born child, the medicine reveals a truth she has long sensed but never fully named: we inherit our family's pain, but we are not bound to repeat it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving between Soviet and American identities, between past and present, and between survival and becoming, Perelman shows that healing is neither forgetting nor erasing. It is the conscious act of choosing what to carry forward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith clarity, honesty, and poetic precision, this memoir reveals that while trauma threads its way through generations, so do resilience, imagination, transformation, and love.\" For anyone seeking to honor their ancestors while breaking free from inherited pain, The Longest Road offers a deeply moving roadmap for remembering, releasing, and reclaiming one's place in the lineage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach step on this journey Sasha reconciles the painful truth that the scars of survival are passed through bloodlines, but healing generational trauma is an intentional choice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ruth's Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48344282529959,"sku":"979-8993384917","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/3875\/6519\/files\/TheLongestRoad.jpg?v=1775508296"},{"product_id":"credit-to-the-nation-eastern-european-jewish-immigrant-bankers-and-the-shaping-of-american-finance-1873-1930","title":"Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mt-24 first:mt-0 md:!mt-32 lg:!mt-64\" data-component=\"editorial:intro\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--intro\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rebecca Kobrin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advancement of Jews in America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection data-component=\"pdp:section\" class=\"mt-48 first:mt-0\" id=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-component=\"editorial:wysiwyg\" class=\"flex flex-col mt-24 first:mt-0 md:!mt-32\" data-behavior=\"truncateWysiwyg\" data-truncated=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wysiwyg\" data-wysiwyg=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhat are immigrants to do when business opportunities abound in their new home, but banks refuse essential financial support? 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Drawing on previously unexamined archival materials in Russian, Yiddish, German, and English, Kobrin tells a story that is also crucial to the history of New York, as immigrant bankers’ financing of real estate transformed wide swathes of the city. Lenders drove a boom in the prices of tenement buildings, but heavy speculation eventually precipitated the downfall of immigrant banking. Kobrin notes in particular the case of the Bank of United States—a private lender catering primarily to Jewish businessmen—which the Federal Reserve refused to bail out from bankruptcy in 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wysiwyg-truncate-paragraph\"\u003eImmigrants’ grasping for credit, and the rise and fall of immigrant banks, gave way to a contemporary banking industry that, ironically, refuses credit to today’s immigrants. 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