The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History by Nir Arielli
A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed...
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This Darkness Will Never End by Edith Bruck
Translator: Jeanne Bonner The stunning short story collection—available in English for the first time—that established Edith Bruck as a major figure in Italian literature. This Darkness Will Never End, the first short story collection...
Glass Century by Ross Barkan
It’s 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry....
Kapusta: Vegetable-Forward Recipes from Eastern Europe by Alissa Timoshkina
A culinary journey across Eastern Europe, Kapusta celebrates the humble vegetables that have shaped some of the most vibrant culinary traditions in the world. Focusing on five key vegetables to the region – cabbage,...
Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds by Noam Sienna
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Jewish Books in North Africa delves into the multifaceted significance of books among North African Jews. From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, this exploration encompasses the history,...
The Star on the Grave by Linda Margolin Royal
A novel inspired by the ‘Japanese Schindler’, written by a woman who owes him her life In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his government and secretly issues...
Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist, this sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter’s death....
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
Translator: Genese Grill A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre―never before published in English. Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely...
Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World by Nancy E. Berg, Dina Danon
This volume explores the history of Jewish life and experience in the modern Islamic world Longing and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the...
The Jewish Revolt: A Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition by Rachel Auerbach
Translator: Michael Wex As one of only three survivors of the secret Ringelblum archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, Rachel Auerbach spent the rest of her life guarding the sacred flame of Holocaust memory. Finally...
