Professor Buber and His Cats by Susan Tarcov
Nine is just the right number Ketem the cat is looking for a new home. Professor Buber’s house looks like a good place to live, but the local cats tell Ketem the famous writer...
Category: New Books
Blood Libel by Michael Lynes
An Isaac Alvarez Mystery 1495 Seville. Can Isaac save his falsely accused friend by tracking down the real killer? The Inquisition is determined to execute heretics like Isaac – those who practice Judaism in...
Bookish People by Susan Coll
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week—narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a...
Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II,...
Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity by Elisa Uusimäki
Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity Series Editors: Catherine Hezser,Sean A. Adams Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as...
How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even...
Tales from the Borderlands by Omer Bartov
Making and Unmaking the Galician Past Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the...
A Cry in Unison by Judy Cohen
The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Judy’s joyful childhood in Debrecen, Hungary, is left behind when the Nazis invade in 1944. The cattle cars take Judy and her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she...
Sid Gordon An American Baseball Story by Steven D. Cahn
A Jewish Boys Journey from the Brooklyn Sandlots to Major League Baseball Sid Gordon was a Brooklyn kid who learned his craft on the local sandlots. He grew up in the shadows of Ebbets...
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet by Robert Pinsky
In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a...
