Crossing the Bronx by David Hirshberg
Crossing the Bronx is an historical literary novel set primarily in the 1950s in The Bronx. It is a modern retelling of the Jacob and Esau story from Genesis. The narrative that propels the story...
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The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition by Emily Jones
Tracing the multifaceted construction and deployment of the Disraeli myth and its legacy in Conservative (and conservative) politics During his lifetime, Benjamin Disraeli, the late-Victorian Conservative Prime Minister (and popular novelist), was often branded...
Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Grace Feuerverger
A child of Holocaust survivors, Grace was always searching for shelter but knew that her home was the last place where she could find it. She was eager to be out there in the...
Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir by Evelyn Joseph Grossman
Holocaust Survivor True Stories Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness. Lilo was just a teenager when...
A God-Shaped Nation by Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Five Hundred Years of Religion in America A kaleidoscopic American history of extraordinary religious transformations, told through the ordinary people who made them happen Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of...
Who Is American?: Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship by Lila Corwin Berman
A groundbreaking history of how modern American citizenship has worked—and not worked—for Jews in the United States The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship,...
Another Soul Saved: A Story of the Holocaust by John Anthony Miller
Once in a generation, a woman emerges whom history can’t forget Vienna, 1941Monika Graf, the wife of a wealthy Austrian military commander, steals two Jewish girls from the Nazis—a crime often punishable by death....
Who Will Rule the Trees? by Eric A. Kimmel
Illustrated by Alette Straathof The work of Creation is finished. Now is the time for the trees to select a ruler. The oak brings strength. The pine brings presence. The maple brings magnificent color....
Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor by Samantha Baskind
How is it that the prolific nineteenth-century sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel is largely forgotten today? Ezekiel was the first renowned Jewish American artist and one of the most popular artist-celebrities of his day. In...
When Eichmann Knocked on Our Door by Tamar Hausner Raveh, Amos Hausner
What was it like to grow up in the house where history was being made? As Attorney General of Israel, Gideon Hausner led the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect and executor of...
