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...
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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...
New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson
Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, Shaul Magid (Editors) The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have...
Don’t Want to Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton
Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young readers. For fans of Too Bright to See. Adam and Victor...
Ethics of the Algorithm by Todd Presner
Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony The Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and...
The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II by Michael Rosen
“They were there at the beginning of the War, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.” That’s all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the...
A Boy from Baghdad by Miriam Halahmy
“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...
Reading Herzl in Beirut by Jonathan Marc Gribetz
The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese...
The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America by Joseph Cohen
A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences Introduction: Kenyon Zimmer Translator: Esther Dolgoff Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism. Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe once comprised the largest segment of the anarchist...
Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...
