Shabbos In a Gas Station by Moishe Y. Engel
And Other Personal Inspirational Stories “When I take a trip, I come back with all the details. But when Rabbi Engel takes a trip—he comes back with A STORY.” In the summer of 1971,...
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My Year of Really Bad Dates by Rachel J. Lithgow
For anyone who’s ever gone on terrible date, a vulnerable memoir that explores dating in midlife after divorce, with bad dates—from terrible one-night stands to promising matches who ultimately disappoint—anchoring the theme of every...
Zayde’s Arcade: Coming of Age in Coney Island by Andy Smith
A nostalgic, heart-tugging coming-of-age novel set against the sun-soaked chaos of Coney Island, where first love, family secrets, and the summer of 1966 change a boy’s life forever. Sixteen-year-old Jason thinks he knows what summer will...
More than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving by Richard Michelson
Illustrator: Joe Cepeda A community grows as neighbor helps neighbor in this heartwarming story inspired by the Golden Ladder, a Jewish approach to charity intended to create a fair society. Moses isn’t used to...
I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin
In a stunning sequel to The Genius Under the Table, Eugene Yelchin’s graphic memoir depicts his harrowing journey from Leningrad’s underground art scene to a state-run Siberian asylum—and to eventual safety in the US....
The Architect of Espionage by Samuel M. Katz
The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force From a New York Times bestselling author and expert on Middle Eastern conflict comes a riveting biography of Meir Dagan, the legendary Mossad director...
Philip Roth: Stung by Life by Steven J. Zipperstein
A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of...
Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story by Jordan Chad
Offers the provocative argument that Jews had long celebrated Christmas in the “Old World“ This book seeks to answer a perplexing question: Why were Christmas traditions once transmitted in Yiddish, a language exclusive to...
I Love You, Charlie Tanner by Lynne Golodner
It’s never too late to become your best self… After twenty years in an isolated Cape Breton commune, Charlie Tanner loses the man she thought was her soulmate—and her voice. Fleeing to a quiet...
Magnates and Masterpieces by John Hilary
The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain The first published account of the German-Jewish magnates who won an international reputation as the leading art collectors of Edwardian Britain The small but conspicuous group of German-Jewish...
