New Jewish Books
In May 1939, nearly one thousand German-Jewish passengers boarded the M.S. St. Louis luxury liner bound for Cuba. They hoped to escape the dangers of Nazi Germany and find safety in Cuba. In this...
Illustrator: Melanie Cataldo A baby boy is hidden in a basket floating on the Nile. A fearful mother sings a song of protection. And a brave big sister seeks a chance to save her...
From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with...
Pink tutus, magic, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: this is suburban fantasy in Australia. Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda. Judith wants an...
The incredible story of a young man surviving the horrors of the Holocaust Horst Stern’s life has never been an easy one, even prior to witnessing the devastation of Kristallnacht in Berlin in 1938....
Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was just an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is...
Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. She lived with her parents, two older brothers, and a younger sister in Amsterdam, and until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had...
Brill Reference Library of Judaism by Alexander Bar-Magen Numhauser In Hispanojewish Archaeology, Alexander Bar-Magen Numhauser provides the first book-length archaeological exploration of the Jewish presence in late antique and early medieval Hispania. Using epigraphic,...
Ronit was six years old when her mother left her and her four year old sister for India to follow a cult guru. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose commune was responsible for the largest biological...
Foreword: Diana Munson The deeply personal story of a friendship between two teammates, and of a human bond which ultimately transcends the game itself. As back-to-back No. 1 draft picks for the New York...
