All Aboard for Noah’s Ark! by Elana Azose
Illustrator: Monica Garofalo Noah is building an ark and Lionel and Dolores, a pair of hedgehogs, are there to make sure the plan goes off without a hitch. “But you’re so tiny,” Noah says,...
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The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature by Vered Tohar
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and...
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age by Rachel Z. Feldman
Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to realize biblical prophecies,...
Swimming to Jerusalem by Seth Bornstein
Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Israel and moved to Brooklyn as a teenager. When he flunks...
Caravan of Hope: A Bukharan Woman’s Journey to Freedom by Dahlia Abraham-Klein
Zina Abraham was born in an Uzbeki prison in 1933. It was a tumultuous time in Jewish history. Soviet Union annexed the territories of what is now Uzbekistan and the Stalinist regime had led...
Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar’s epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and...
The Tears and Prayers of Fools by Grigory Kanovich
Translator: Mary Ann Szporluk This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich’s “Litvak saga,” his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the...
Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit by Kerry Wallach
Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police...
Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival by Alfred J. Lakritz
Alfred J. Lakritz’s inspiring and moving memoir chronicling his painful separation from his parents, who relied on the kindness of strangers to save Alfred and his brother Herbert from the Nazis. or years, the...
Today in Jewish History by Rabbi Pinchas Landis
Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler writes that there are different flows of holiness that come into the world at different times of the year. Therefore, it follows that each day on the Jewish calendar has a...
