One One in Six Million by Amy Fish
The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity Maria was eight months old in 1942 when a childless couple found her, wrapped in a blanket, at the...
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Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams by Katherine Paterson
The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Illustrator: Sally Deng The inspiring true story of how one visionary woman used children’s books to help heal a...
Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Sharon Ann Musher
How adventurous Jewish women’s travels upended Jewish norms In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the bat mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter...
Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany by Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Shira Miron, Sarah Wobick-Segev
How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face...
Dybbuk Americana by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
“How can I teach a prayer / I only know how to recite?” “America, whose death / didn’t you come from?” These are some of the questions that poet Joshua Gottlieb-Miller wrestles with in...
Ben Hecht’s Jewish Theatre of Protest by Garrett Eisler
Ben Hecht is most remembered as a famous Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright, but only recently has his extensive Jewish activism during the Holocaust and its aftermath received scholarly attention. Unlike other, more expansive...
So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Levi Shalit
Translator: Ellen Cassedy A powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto in Nazi-occupied Lithuania So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania (Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn) is...
It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change by Ron Wyden
In this inspirational call to action, a senior U.S. politician reveals how to accomplish goals with a combination of strong allies, persistence, and attention—that is, chutzpah. It Takes Chutzpah is an inspirational call to action...
Maine Characters by Hannah Orenstein
From beloved author Hannah Orenstein, this love letter to lake life is “the Parent Trap for adults,” the story of two half-sisters who meet for the first time at their father’s cabin in Maine...
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival by Daniel Khalastchi
Daniel Khalastchi boldly strides across a landscape of smoldering fires, unmarked boxes, and pictures of senators in airplane bathrooms. Exhilarating and innovative, The Story of Your Obstinate Survival collapses genre and upends narrative convention...
