Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer
The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know...
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Love Is Strong as Death: A Biography of Franz Rosenzweig by Paul Mendes-Flohr
A brilliant and engaging biography of one of the great modern Jewish thinkers. Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germany. His masterwork, The Star...
Was it Just a Matter of Luck? by Dr. Charles Kaner
A Family, the Holocaust, and the Founding of a Museum Editor: Joy E. Stocke Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory...
The Winding Road of Redemption Haggadah by Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Fisch
A commentary on the Pesach Haggadah The night of the Pesach Seder is not only when we commemorate our national journey from servitude to salvation; it is an auspicious moment on the personal level...
The Lines We Draw by Tim Franks
The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity Tim Franks spent years as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a...
Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy by Daniel Okrent
A revelatory look at the complex inner world of one of the twentieth century’s most beloved theatrical composers Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a towering figure in American musical theater. Celebrated for such iconic Broadway...
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 by Ian Buruma
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and...
The Passover Pet Surprise by Ana María Shua
Illustrator: Ángeles Ruiz A multicultural addition to the Passover picture book canon, this sweet story explores the meaning of freedom for the Jewish people–and their pets! Also available in Spanish: La gran sorpresa de Pésaj....
The Remembering Candle by Alison Goldberg
Illustrator: Selina Alko I was sad when Grandpa died. I think about how sad Mom was too.Mom says she misses Grandpa, but all her memories are like shining lights. Grandpa died last November. Now,...
The Arab Case for Israel: And Other Essays from a Distant Conflict by Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Foreword: Morgan Ortagus Why immediate and unconditional peace with Israel is a pressing interest for all Arab nations. Before the State of Israel emerged, Arab nationalism and Islamism rejected the European-crafted state boundaries in...
