Before All the World by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at...
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28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David Safier
Inspired by true events, David Safier’s 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto is a harrowing historical YA that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust. Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles...
The Blumkin Project by Christian Salmon
A Biographical Novel Translator: William Rodarmor This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had...
A Castle in Brooklyn by Shirley Russak Wachtel
Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendship, and the dream of finding home. 1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances....
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy by Deborah Starr
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and ’70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker...
Cooking alla Giudia by Benedetta Jasmine Guetta
A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy Cooking alla Giudia is the ultimate tribute to the wonderfully rich, yet still largely unknown, culinary heritage of the Jews of Italy. From Roman deep-fried artichokes...
An Amateur Performance by Lev Levanda
Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Editor: Brian HorowitzTranslator: Hugh McLeanPreface: William Craft Brumfield Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda’s brilliant...
Frankly Feminist by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Susan Weidman Schneider
A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine,...
The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland
A hilarious, heartfelt story about four lifelong friends determined to change their lives, come hell (terrible bosses, ex-husbands living next door) or high water (laundry…so much laundry) from the acclaimed author of Last Summer...
American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism by Brooke Knorr
The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever Copenhagen International Seminar This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism. While these scholars...
