Tarantula by Eduardo Halfon
Translated by Daniel Hahn Dark lessons from a childhood sleepaway camp reverberate in the present In 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back...
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How to Talk to a Cat: Buber, Philosophy, and Dialogue with Unspeaking Things by Dustin N. Atlas
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Guided by the philosophical insights of Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, How to Talk to a Cat explores the possibility of dialogue beyond the boundaries of spoken language. Original and effective in...
The Memory Place: How My Parents Survived Nazi Hell by Monica Van Rijn
Holocaust Books for Young Adults When WWII breaks out in Amsterdam, Hetty and Fritz have not yet met. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the hostile takeover of the Netherlands, armed German soldiers...
Conversations with My Rabbi: Timeless Teachings for a Fractured World by Eli Schlanger, Nikki Goldstein
A radically hopeful exploration of faith, identity, morality, and purpose grounded in timeless Jewish principles, captured in a series of profound conversations between Nikki Goldstein and the man who saved her life and became...
What Louis Brandeis Knows by Richard Michelson
A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice Illustrated by Stacy Innerst Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there was Louis D. Brandeis: a lawyer/activist turned Supreme Court Justice who drew on common sense...
Israel and the Rise of the Global Domain: Interpreting Jewish Existence by Mark Tilse
Routledge Jewish Studies Series Israel and the Rise of the Global Domain: Interpreting Jewish Existence offers the first comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding Jewish existence through the lens of spatial paradigms within the global epoch,...
Hiding the Holocaust: Memoir of a Deaf Daughter by Irene W. Leigh
From her parents, deaf psychologist Irene W. Leigh learned how quickly safety could be yanked away. Her parents, Jews who barely escaped Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II, tried to shield...
Max’s Mask: A Purim Story by Havvah Deevon
Illustrated by Itay Bekin A heartwarming Purim story about friendship, courage, and being yourself. Perfect for preschoolers, Max’s Mask introduces Jewish values and holiday traditions through relatable characters and playful classroom moments. Max is nervous. He’s...
Challah from Heaven by Richard Ungar
The wise Gaon of Minsk is in town for Shabbat, but Mama’s lighter-than-air challah has flown away! Can Hanni get it back in time for Shabbat dinner?
Homebound by Portia Elan
In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across...
