A Brutal Design by Zachary C. Solomon
After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag―or worse. Instead, he receives an...
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A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press by Ayelet Brinn
A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers Between the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish-language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful...
Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media by Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women’s relationship to media in these communities, however,...
Nordhausen Concentration Camp: Then and Now by Daniel Taylor (Editor)
In the history of Nazi concentration camps, and particularly labor camps, there is probably no place that bears the same stigma of wretchedness as ‘Dora-Mittelbau’ at Nordhausen. Located in the Harz mountains in central...
City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years An ambitious,...
Ana Turns by Lisa Gornick
A kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman’s sixtieth birthday. Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband, seven since she began an...
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400-1700 by Katherine Aron-Beller
Jewish Culture and Contexts In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned...
The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World by Elisa Boxer
Illustrator: Alianna Rozentsveig Hope triumphs over fear in this poignant and impactful true story of the Holocaust—a delicate introduction to World War Two history for older picture book readers. During World War Two, in...
Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke
Foreword: Erik Wood A lost midcentury classic—the farcical misadventures of a queer Black teen sharing a house with two adoptive mothers, a lascivious cook, and a reticent ghost. In a small Michigan town, in...
Straw Bag, Tin Box, Cloth Suitcase: Three Immigrant Voices by Jane Yolen, Marjorie Lotfi, and Raquel Elizabeth Artiga de Paz
Illustrator: Fotini Tikkou Three women, from three different continents and separated by generations, share stories of coming to the United States. Sarah’s great-great grandmother Manya fled the Cossacks in the Ukraine at the turn...
