Night Angels by Weina Dai Randel
From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, based on the true story...
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This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most―safe from the Holocaust. But that was...
Professor Buber and His Cats by Susan Tarcov
Nine is just the right number Ketem the cat is looking for a new home. Professor Buber’s house looks like a good place to live, but the local cats tell Ketem the famous writer...
Blood Libel by Michael Lynes
An Isaac Alvarez Mystery 1495 Seville. Can Isaac save his falsely accused friend by tracking down the real killer? The Inquisition is determined to execute heretics like Isaac – those who practice Judaism in...
Bookish People by Susan Coll
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week—narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a...
Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II,...
Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity by Elisa Uusimäki
Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity Series Editors: Catherine Hezser,Sean A. Adams Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as...
How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even...
Tales from the Borderlands by Omer Bartov
Making and Unmaking the Galician Past Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the...
A Cry in Unison by Judy Cohen
The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Judy’s joyful childhood in Debrecen, Hungary, is left behind when the Nazis invade in 1944. The cattle cars take Judy and her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she...
