Ephraim’s Bones by David de Wolf
Joseph Lichtman, a young man from Frankfurt, is determined to escape the culture of the ghetto, still dominant fifty years after Napoleon. Dramatically, he not only leaves his family, but also steps back from...
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The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty Zeldis
For fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Joanna Goodman, a mesmerizing historical novel from Kitty Zeldis, the author of Not Our Kind, about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets...
Return to Latvia by Marina Jarre
Translator: Ann Goldstein Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return...
Why Are Jews Not Christians?: by Zeev Farber
Why did exactly those people that Jesus appealed to, his contemporary Jews, not accept Jesus? Why have the Jews not accepted Jesus later? Translated by Mira S. Beerbaum Why did exactly those people that...
An Invitation to Passover by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen
Illustrator: Mariia Kolker When Hannah’s extended family isn’t able to join her for their traditional Passover seder, she invites her diverse group of friends to experience the holiday with her. From Ha-joon’s Korean kimchi,...
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling by Steve Zeitlin (editor)
JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes...
The American Way by Helene Stapinski, Bonnie Siegler
A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe In this exuberant real-life adventure, the publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee Nazi Berlin, their lives...
Deceit by Yuri Felsen
Translator: Bryan Karetnyk Once considered the ‘Russian Proust’, Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar Europe in Deceit, an experimental novel in the form of a diary that...
And None Shall Make Them Afraid by Rick Richman
Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel This is the story of how Zionism, supported by Americanism, created a modern miracle—told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history. And...
Help funding “D is for Donut” by Rachel Teichman (author of “B is for Bagel”)
From the book’s crowdsourcing page: After the success of my first book, B is for Bagel, I decided to write D is for Donut. From Apple Fritter to Zeppole, kids are sure to learn...
