The Only Light in London by Lily Graham
A totally unputdownable WW2 story about love and sacrifice She took him in when no one else would. She didn’t expect to fall in love… London 1939. As war casts a dark shadow in...
Category: New Books
Afikoman, Where’d You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure by Rebecca Gardyn Levington
Illustrator: Noa Kelner Help the children find the afikoman during their seder! It’s a rambunctious Passover hide-and-seek story for fans of Where’s Waldo? and The Gingerbread Man. This lively, funny picture book brings to...
The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden. Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but...
Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation by Moshe Y. Miller
Jews and Judaism: History and Culture An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth...
We Are Only Ghosts: A Remarkable Novel of Survival in the Wake of WWII by Jeffrey L. Richards
New York City, 1968:The customers at Café Marie don’t come just for the excellent coffee and pastries. They come for the sophisticated ambiance, and the illusion of being somewhere other than a bustling, exhausting...
This Haggadah is The Way: A Star Wars Unofficial Passover Parody by Martin Bodek
Darth Seders have been going on for years, and the time had come for a proper text to accompany the evening (or two, in the diaspora). Enter Martin Bodek, SuperUberMegaHyperUltraFan.
The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner
From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans—to...
Women on the Yiddish Stage by Alyssa Quint, Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel (Editors)
Studies in Yiddish The integration of women into public Jewish performance (Yiddish-language theater by 1877 and Hebrew-language theater by about 1918) was a revolution in modern Jewish culture. While a great deal of seasoned...
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury
In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fueled ideologies...
Forty Arguments for the Sake of Heaven: Why the Most Vital Controversies in Jewish Intellectual History Still Matter by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Jewish Arguments Two Jews, three arguments – as the saying goes. But what kinds of topics have Jews disagreed about historically, in the present day, and potentially also in the future? Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz...
