Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer
“How many lives can you imagine yourself living?” So Hannah Larson wonders. When a close relative falls ill, Hannah and her young son, Nicky, decide to join him for the summer at Ashton Hall,...
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Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities: Michail Grobman and the Leviathan Group by Lola Kantorkazovsky
Studia Judaeoslavica Can studying an artist’s migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and “global” mode? Michail Grobman’s odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to...
The Glassmaker’s Son by Peter Kupfer
Looking for the World My Father Left Behind in Nazi Germany Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII A blend of lyrical memoir and sober history, The Glassmaker’s Son recounts a son’s decades-long quest to uncover...
A Glimmer Through the Breach by Juliet Ayres
Mancunians Hannah Bernstein and Trish Wilcox are worlds apart in terms of social class – in terms of everything. Hannah is Jewish from the middle-class suburb of Didsbury and Trish is Catholic from an...
Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds by Kenneth Wishnia
Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemán, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi...
The Origins of Judaism by Yonatan Adler
An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism Throughout much of history, the Jewish way...
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge by Dina Porat
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for “vengeance”) tells the story of “the Avengers”...
Soldier On: A Woman’s Memoir of Resilience and Hope by Bracha Horovitz
Soldier On is a true story about what it means to become a woman, and how the heat of hardships can forge strong character and lead to purposeful life. The daughter of an Auschwitz...
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of...
How did Moses know he was a Hebrew?: Reading Bible stories from within by Jonathan Magonet, Gabriel Josipovici, John Barton
Too often Bible stories are familiar to us in the simplified version we learnt as children, or through the lessons they are supposed to teach us in religious homilies. Yet the actual stories are...
