When We See You Again by Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Afterword by Jon Polin Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm...
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Dual Identities: Living in Meier’s Shadow by Arthur Myron Horwitz
A Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined. “You hear nothing!” his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally Finkelstein Horwitz,...
Modern Architecture and Gender in Pre-State Israel by Sigal Davidi
This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948). This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the...
A Thousand Miracles by Theodor Meron
From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide When the Second World War began, Theodor Meron was a Jewish-born boy of just 9. He survived ghettos, camps and unimaginable atrocities, but lost most of his...
Like Wafers in Honey by Leah Eskin
Illustrated by Jeska Verstegen This debut novel from food writer Leah Eskin of the Chicago Tribune combines the historical sweep and emotional power of The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer and the resonant use of food...
Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki
A fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is. Sonia is a Hungarian immigrant...
All Afternoon by Susan Kleinman
River Ridge, New Jersey, 1978 As feminism takes root in the tight-knit Jewish community of River Ridge, New Jersey, women are opening businesses, rethinking their marriages, and challenging their synagogue’s long-standing rules. Not Marilyn...
The Collected Works of Esther Kreitman by Anita Norich
Esther Kreitman’s fiction explores the realities of Jewish life in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Uncompromising in her critique of injustice and hypocrisy, she exposes the emptiness of those who...
The Hidden Hand by Warren Kinsella
The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda An explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of...
The Lost Girl of Craven County by Emily Matchar
Brought together by chance, bound together by secrets. A decade into the Great Depression, Millicent Green is a twenty-five-year-old “old maid” living with her marriage-obsessed mother and domineering older brother in the stiflingly small...
