Bookish People by Susan Coll
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week—narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a...
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Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II,...
Tales from the Borderlands by Omer Bartov
Making and Unmaking the Galician Past Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the...
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet by Robert Pinsky
In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a...
Rosalind Looked Closer by Lisa Gerin
An Unsung Hero of Molecular Science Illustrator: Chiara Fedele The story of a persistent woman whose research in molecular biology changed the world. As a Jewish girl in England, Rosalind Franklin grew up against...
Before All the World by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at...
The Blumkin Project by Christian Salmon
A Biographical Novel Translator: William Rodarmor This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had...
Cooking alla Giudia by Benedetta Jasmine Guetta
A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy Cooking alla Giudia is the ultimate tribute to the wonderfully rich, yet still largely unknown, culinary heritage of the Jews of Italy. From Roman deep-fried artichokes...
Frankly Feminist by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Susan Weidman Schneider
A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine,...
The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland
A hilarious, heartfelt story about four lifelong friends determined to change their lives, come hell (terrible bosses, ex-husbands living next door) or high water (laundry…so much laundry) from the acclaimed author of Last Summer...
