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The Legacy of Jewish Swimmers

The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with Karen Propp. Karen won the 2013 Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for her work-in-progress FREESTYLE, based on...

Bar-Ilan University Press book sale

Special Offer for Passover 3 days only  All our publications  including eBooks  50%off the catalog price  at our website  See New Publications  Until 03.04.14 – April 3, 2014) while supply last 

The Lie by Hesh Kestin

Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools – or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending...

The Doppelganger’s Dance by Libi Astaire

Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes when a crime wave sweeps through Regency London’s Jewish community and the adventures of wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Ezra Melamed are recorded for posterity by Miss Rebecca Lyon, a young lady not...

Diary 1954 by Leopold Tyrmand

Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland’s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating...