The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life. When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as...
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Building and Consoling a Nation by Mark L. Smith (Editor)
The Yiddish Historians in Their Own Words. Selected Writings Newly Translated into English In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish,...
I Will Come Back for You by Daniel Huhn
The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis Translator: Rachel Staynton A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion. Four days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945, a young...
Jews in Old Rus’: A Documentary History by Alexander Kulik
Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies For the first time, this collection makes available a selection of documents on the history of Jews in old Rus’ that provide unique insight into Slavic–Jewish relations, offering both...
Live Your Dream: The Story of a Jewish Basketball All-Star by Tamir Goodman
This picture book shares the story of dyslexic Jewish basketball star Tamir Goodman’s successes as player and coach.
Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest by George T. Nagel
Edited by Rabbi Pini Dunner Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest is a powerful firsthand account of life inside a Southern California residential facility for recovering psychiatric patients-as told by an unlikely observer, George...
Small Talk by Jeffrey Schwartz
This is a book of elegies, meditations, and dreams. It’s a book about connections and disruptions. It’s a book about time, how quickly it slips through our fingers and how it never ends. In...
Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930: A Memoir by Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche
Edited by Michelle U. Campos and Or Aleksandrowicz The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in...
Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective by Nathaniel Deutsch, Alma Rachel Heckman, Tony Michels (Editors)
For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas,...
Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity by David Mazower
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture—its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics—from...
