Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler
New York City, East Village, 1984. A young woman with the power to see the ghosts of her friends is haunted by the one who refuses to return—a dazzling, big-hearted debut of friendship and...
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Passion and Power: A Life in Three Worlds by Harriet Newman Cohen with David Feinberg
Passion and Power is about the life and career of Harriet Newman Cohen, one of the nation’s most celebrated divorce attorneys, as she navigated the male-dominated legal world from the 1970s to today. This sweeping...
Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus by Edward Breuer, Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Adena Tanenbaum (Editors)
Mezukak Shivatayim brings together the work of over a dozen students of Professor Bernard Septimus as a tribute to his superb and masterful scholarship. In his writing and teaching, Septimus exhibited an extraordinary breadth of...
Reflection by Hedy Bohm
Introduction by Dr. Rosie Ramsden The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs As a young teenager in Oradea, Romania, Hedy Bohm leads a sheltered life, oblivious to the events of World War II and...
Love and Desire in the Promised Land by Salomé Parent-Rachdi
The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians Translated by Jenna AllenIllustrated by Deloupy This journalistic portrait of the intimate lives of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians frames the Israeli Palestinian conflict through a humanizing new...
Tarantula by Eduardo Halfon
Translated by Daniel Hahn Dark lessons from a childhood sleepaway camp reverberate in the present In 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back...
How to Talk to a Cat: Buber, Philosophy, and Dialogue with Unspeaking Things by Dustin N. Atlas
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Guided by the philosophical insights of Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, How to Talk to a Cat explores the possibility of dialogue beyond the boundaries of spoken language. Original and effective in...
The Memory Place: How My Parents Survived Nazi Hell by Monica Van Rijn
Holocaust Books for Young Adults When WWII breaks out in Amsterdam, Hetty and Fritz have not yet met. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the hostile takeover of the Netherlands, armed German soldiers...
Conversations with My Rabbi: Timeless Teachings for a Fractured World by Eli Schlanger, Nikki Goldstein
A radically hopeful exploration of faith, identity, morality, and purpose grounded in timeless Jewish principles, captured in a series of profound conversations between Nikki Goldstein and the man who saved her life and became...
What Louis Brandeis Knows by Richard Michelson
A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice Illustrated by Stacy Innerst Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there was Louis D. Brandeis: a lawyer/activist turned Supreme Court Justice who drew on common sense...
