The Book of Elsie by Joanne Levy
Elsie Rose-Miller loves celebrating the Purim holiday and can’t wait for the annual costume party at her local synagogue. Elsie plans to dress up as the fierce and smart Queen Esther, who saved all...
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Before the Holocaust by Hermann Beck
Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. While previous historical research assumed...
So They Remember by Maksim Goldenshteyn
A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust...
No Religion without Idolatry by Gideon Freudenthal
Mendelssohn’s Jewish Enlightenment Moses Mendelssohn (1725–1786) is considered the foremost representative of Jewish Enlightenment. In No Religion without Idolatry, Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn’s general philosophy and discusses for the first...
From a Distant Relation by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky
Editor and translator: James Adam Redfield In his short life (1865–1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar...
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power by Pnina Lahav
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on...
Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu
In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s sweeping, moving autobiography, one of the most formidable and insightful leaders of our time tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending...
I Kept Walking by Minou Michlin
The Unlikely Story of a Persian Woman with Polio A spirited little girl is diagnosed with polio, which in 1940s Iran all but condemns her to a life in the shadows. In a conservative...
I Believe: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible by Jonathan Sacks
Time and again, in the midst of troubled times or facing difficult decisions, I’ve found the words of the weekly parasha giving me guidance – or, conversely, the events themselves granting me deeper insight...
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the incredible story of Rudolf Vrba—the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man...
