The Tower of Life by Chana Stiefel
How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs Illustrator: Susan Gal A moving biography of the woman who created The Tower of Life, a powerful exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum...
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Even God Had Bad Parenting Days by Alicia Jo Rabins
Ancient Jewish Wisdom for New Parents New parents get overwhelmed, regularly pushed to their limits and confused by contradictory feelings of elation and near-despair. To soothe the frazzled and lift their spirits, writer and...
Maybe It Happened This Way: Bible Stories Reimagined by Leah Rachel Berkowitz, Erica Wovsaniker
Illustrator: Katherine Messenger Take a fresh look at the Bible stories you think you know, retold using the Jewish concept of midrash. Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Moses. We think we know their...
The Foxtail Legacy by David Abromowitz
David Abromowitz’s debut novel carries the reader along on an epic immigrant journey across three continents. Jacob Itzkowitz, a teenager with a knack for handling horses, leaves behind village life in anti-Semitic Czarist Russia...
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn...
UNSCOP and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Road to Partition by Elad Ben-Dror
Translator: Haim Watzman Israeli History, Politics and Society This book provides the first comprehensive account of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), constituted by the United Nations General Assembly...
The G on Her Suitcase by Carla J. Silver
Illustrator: Adam Y. Silver When World War I breaks out, as a woman, a Jew, wife of a German Jew, a suffragist and a mother of three, it seems Milbourne Goldschmidt’s life just lurches...
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally...
Pathos and Anti-Pathos by Tom Vanassche
Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah Media and Cultural Memory Scholarship often presumes that texts written about the Shoah, either by those directly involved in it or those writing its history, must...
Don’t forget about me: The Short Life of Gideon Klein, Composer and Pianist by David Fligg
A most gifted musician of his generation, this book traces Gideon Klein’s short life through his music, his diaries and documents as well as the reminiscences of his friends and family. Don’t Forget about...
