Odessa by Gabrielle Sher
In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a...
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Unsettled Ground: Reflections on Germany’s Attempts to Make Amends by Jeffrey L. Katz
Germany once felt the world’s wrath for crimes committed during the Nazi regime. More recently, it received extravagant praise for facing up to the atrocities. The country now boasts of new Jewish museums, Holocaust...
Hidden River by Sara Lippmann
Thirty-five year old Cassandra (aka Cass, Cassie, Cassidy, and Cassiopeia) Trout is going nowhere fast. Stuck in her hometown of Philadelphia, she spends her lackluster days working retail and running, and then rinse, repeat....
How To Be a Dissident by Gal Beckerman
An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift How do we push back in a world where political...
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...
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...
