The Marriage Box by Corie Adjmi
Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her...
Category: New Books
New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust by Matthew Silverman, Howard Debs (Editors)
The editors selected 58 images from noted collections consisting of vintage photography, propaganda posters, newsreel stills, etc. matching each to a poet, short story writer, plus features by essayists. Each writer uniquely interpreted these...
Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages by Kenneth Stow
Confrontation and Response The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe. Papal consistency, sometimes sorely tried,...
Israel and the Question of Reparations from Germany by Jacob Tovy
Post-Holocaust Reckonings (1949–1953) The Israeli–West-German Reparations Agreement from September 10, 1952, is considered an event of paramount importance in the history of the State of Israel due to its dramatic and far-reaching implications in...
Jewish Life in Canada: William Kurelek by Sarah Milroy (Editor)
William Kurelek (1927–1977) is a beloved figure in Canadian art, a revered Ukrainian-Canadian painter whose works express his deeply felt immigrant experience and his compassionate vision of humanity. In 1975, he created a suite...
Ella KVELLephant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yiddish Treasure by Jen Kostman
This is the delightful story of Ella, a spunky elephant explorer who is on the hunt for her grandmother’s beloved Yiddish language. Join Ella, Bubbe, Zayde, and baby Eli for this colorful beach-day adventure!...
Whatever it Takes: Restoring hope by Shea Hecht
Whatever It Takes is a collection of true stories of courage and hope, as told by Rabbi Shea Hecht, a communal leader for forty years in the Crown Heights community of Brooklyn, New York....
New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust
Editors: Stefan Boberg, Frédéric Bonnesoeur, Hannah Wilson, Christin Zühlke In 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect ‘the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes...
The Swarm by Dalia Neis
A shapeshifting dream-diary and metaphysical thriller, inspired by the histories of dissident uprisings and migrational routes of Budapest; the geological depths of the hot springs, and the meandering flow of the Danube River. THE...
Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies by Sarah Silberstein Swartz
Unsung Women of the Holocaust Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and...
