Cousins’ Club by Warren Alexander
When the matriarch of the least successful Jewish family in America gets tired of their misfortune, she consults mystical texts for help. Determined that their next grandchild will be a genius who changes their...
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Jacobo’s Rainbow by David Hirshberg
Jacobo’s Rainbow is an historical literary novel set primarily in the nineteen sixties during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an...
Sefer Orchot Tzaddikim : Ways Of The Righteous
Orchot Tzaddikim – Ways Of The Righteous, is a book on Jewish ethics written in Germany in the 15th century, entitled Sefer ha-Middot by the author, but called Orḥot Ẓaddiḳim by a later copyist....
37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M.S. St. Louis, 1939 by Barbara Krasner
In May 1939, nearly one thousand German-Jewish passengers boarded the M.S. St. Louis luxury liner bound for Cuba. They hoped to escape the dangers of Nazi Germany and find safety in Cuba. In this...
Hiding Baby Moses by Judith L. Roth
Illustrator: Melanie Cataldo A baby boy is hidden in a basket floating on the Nile. A fearful mother sings a song of protection. And a brave big sister seeks a chance to save her...
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel
From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with...
The Wizardry Of Jewish Women by Gillian Polack
Pink tutus, magic, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: this is suburban fantasy in Australia. Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda. Judith wants an...
Defying Death on the Danube: A Holocaust Survival Story by Debbie J Callahan, Henry Stern
The incredible story of a young man surviving the horrors of the Holocaust Horst Stern’s life has never been an easy one, even prior to witnessing the devastation of Kristallnacht in Berlin in 1938....
At the End of the World, Turn Left by Zhanna Slor
Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was just an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is...
My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor by Selma van de Perre
Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. She lived with her parents, two older brothers, and a younger sister in Amsterdam, and until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had...
