Escape from Dachau by Kathe Mueller Slonim
A True Story of Survival, Courage, and a Daring Escape in the Face of Unthinkable Evil On a rainy night in December 1938, former Nazi official Max Immanuel climbed into his car in Berlin...
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The Last Words of Moses by Micah Goodman
Translator: Ilana Kurshan The book of Deuteronomy is the fifth and final book of the Torah, and the Torah – according to Jewish tradition – is divine. The book of Deuteronomy, however, presents itself...
Blank by Zibby Owens
A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel about family, friendship, success, and exhilarating self-(re)discovery. Pippa Jones is a fortyish former literary...
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman by Zilka Joseph
Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? SWEET MALIDA is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short...
Braids: Recipes from My Pacific Northwest Jewish Kitchen by Sonya Sanford
Braids is the debut cookbook from chef and writer Sonya Sanford. This beautifully photographed book reflects the process of creating something new, and wholly delicious, from the seemingly disconnected strands of a life lived...
On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature,...
Through the Morgue Door by Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes
One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris Translators: Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician....
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorehouse
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity...
The Winthrop Agreement by Alice Simpson
A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place...
Just One More Thing … and Then Bedtime by Menahem Halberstadt
Translator: Romy Ronen Every night, Dora’s dad puts her to bed, but tonight Dora doesn’t want to go to sleep yet, so instead she decides to ask her dad a question. “Just one more...
