The Challah Girl by Bracha K. Sharp, Anita Tung
Illustrator: Anita Tung In a faraway village, can anyone make the royal prince smile? Zlatah Leah is a capable girl, talented in many things. One day, she joins her village’s effort to make the...
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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best by Neal Bascomb
They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage....
The Well Digger: Flourishing in Your Desert by F. Lionel Young III
The Well Digger is a little book about flourishing in the desert in the middle of a famine. It is the story of the forgotten patriarch, Isaac, who faced famine, failure, frustration and foe—but...
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called...
Happy Llamakkah! by Laura Gehl
Illustrator: Lydia Nichols Celebrate Hanukkah with the Llama family in this joyful, rhyming picture book Follow along with the Llama family’s Hanukkah traditions as they light their menorah, spin the dreidel, fry latkes, and more....
Recipes From Auschwitz: The Survival Stories of Two Hungarian Jews by Alex Sternberg
By July of 1944, nearly 600,000 Hungarian Jews had been ripped from their homes and deported to Auschwitz, victims of a fate that claimed the lives of millions by the end of the Second...
Yiddish Saves the Day by Debbie Levy
Illustrator: Hector Borlasca Oy vey! Such bad mazel you are having. You tripped, banged your shnoz and fell on your tuchus. Then, oy vey is mir, you lost your vocab notebook the day before the big test! But don t worry,...
The Odyssey of an Apple Thief by Moishe Rozenbaumas
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Editor: Isabelle Rozenbaumas; Translator: Jonathan Layton In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922–2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught...
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880
Editor: Elisheva Carlebach Series Editor: Deborah Dash Moore A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes...
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin
Translator: Stefan Hoffman Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals...
