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The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

Cul­ti­vat­ing Cre­ativ­i­ty Through Ancient Jew­ish Wisdom The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish...

Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz by Ari Richter

Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz by Ari Richter

A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance In this debut graphic memoir, New York-based artist Ari Richter weaves together two haunting stories – his grand- and great-grandparents’ imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz,...

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

To save his family’s failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut. Ezra Friedman sees ghosts,...

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise By the...

Jewish Education by Ari Y Kelman

Jewish Education by Ari Y Kelman

Key Words in Jewish Studies Most writing about Jewish education has been preoccupied with two questions: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? Ari Y Kelman upends...

Esfir Is Alive by Andrea Simon

Esfir Is Alive by Andrea Simon

A novel inspired by a true story of survival. Esfir Manevich is a young Jewish girl who lives in the Polish town of Kobrin in 1936. Facing antisemitism in public school, Esfir moves in...

Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright

Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright

An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of Scrip­ture and its Origins Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so...