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When The Hunted Hunt by Lorraine Dixon

When The Hunted Hunt by Lorraine Dixon

In When the Hunted Hunt, Ada, a young Jewish wife and mother, endures unimaginable horrors in two concentration camps during the Holocaust. Torn from her husband and children, she loses everything—family, friends, and hope....

Klezmer Book by Avrahm Galper

Klezmer Book by Avrahm Galper

42 Klezmer Favorites for Clarinet and B-Flat Instruments A great addition to the Avrahm Galper Clarinet Series, here Avrahm presents 42 fantastic Klezmer tunes to add to your repertoire. All arranged for clarinet and...

Next Stop by Ben­jamin Resnick

Next Stop by Ben­jamin Resnick

For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange...

The Other by Jeff Markowitz

The Other by Jeff Markowitz

For Abe Dubinski and his family, life on the canal is both peaceful and productive. Employed as a lock tender, Abe is responsible for the safe passage of barges carrying anthracite from Pennsylvania to...

No Road Lead­ing Back by Chris Heath

No Road Lead­ing Back by Chris Heath

An Improb­a­ble Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tan­gled Way We Tell the Sto­ry of the Holocaust This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their...

A Light In The Darkness by Aaron Zevy

A Light In The Darkness by Aaron Zevy

Illustrator: Susan Tebbutt Josh and Willy are next door neighbours and best friends. They play basketball, rent scary movies, and goof around. When a rock is thrown through the window of Josh’s house while...

Two Wheels to Free­dom by Arthur J. Magida

Two Wheels to Free­dom by Arthur J. Magida

The Sto­ry of a Young Jew, Wartime Resis­tance, and a Dar­ing Escape The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student in wartime Berlin who not just survived but resisted—and retained his infectious...

Opening The Gates of Hell by Mark Hodkinson

Opening The Gates of Hell by Mark Hodkinson

The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Bergen-Belsen Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first Allied solider to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945....