Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying...
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Tahini Baby by Eden Grinshpan
Bright, Everyday Recipes That Happen to Be Vegetarian An irresistible celebration of veg-forward Middle Eastern- and Mediterranean-inspired recipes guaranteed to bring fresh flavors and liven up your table, from the beloved TV personality, cookbook...
Fools for Love by Helen Schulman
A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes....
The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the “tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir” (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother’s life, told in reverse order from burial to...
Hidden in Plain Sight by Julie Brill
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before...
The Writer by Josh Gad, The Berkowitz Bros
Illustrated by Ariel Olivetti Josh Gad and the Berkowitz Brothers team up with legendary artist Ariel Olivetti for a thrilling graphic novel of Jewish folklore and magic. The Writer plunges readers into the captivating...
The Sound of Exile: European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947 by Yating Tang
Modern Jewish History Combining diaspora studies and ethnomusicology, The Sound of Exile examines how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai. From...
Together in Manzanar by Tracy Slater
The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her...
Jacob in Jubilees: Jacob, the Torah and the Abrahamic Promise by Topias K. E. Tanskanen
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies The patriarch Jacob functions as the main character in Jubilees, one of the most important early Jewish texts outside the Bible. This study investigates two important connections made by...
Sesame: Global Recipes & Stories of an Ancient Seed by Rachel Simons
A clear, approachable guide to the world of sesame, from halva, tahini, and sesame oil, to togarashi, gomasio and furikake, with 80+ vegetarian-forward recipes, from the founder of popular tahini outfit Seed+Mill in New...
