A Place to Belong: Debbie Friedman Sings Her Way Home by Deborah Lakritz
Illustrator: Julie Castano How Debbie Friedman became one of Judaism’s best-known singer/songwriters.
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Peninnah’s World: A Jewish Life in Stories by Caren Schnur Neile
She’s an iconic Jewish storyteller. She’s a widely acclaimed professor and folklorist. She’s the one and only Peninnah Schram, and Peninnah’s World: A Jewish Life in Stories is her authorized biography, told through individual...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim
The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an observer and chronicler of his times. Born and raised in Galicia on the...
Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara Bloemink
Lauded by the New Yorker as one of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” this comprehensive biography establishes Florine Stettheimer as one of the most innovative artists of the early twentieth century. Florine...
Reclaiming Biblical Heroines by Monika Czekanowska-Gutman
Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art Although recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the...
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...
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...
