The Melody by Oded Burla
Translator: Ilana KurshanIllustrator: Assaf Benharroch This seems to be a simple story of a melody in search of a singer, but look a little closer and you will find echoes of an ancient Jewish...
Category: New Books
Free as a Jew by Ruth Wisse
A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation A Jewish child born into the worst of times in Europe grows up during the best of times in North America—only to recognize that it could be moving...
Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination by Efraim Sicher
Negotiating Spaces and Identities Routledge Jewish Studies Series This radical critique, and comparative study, of postmodern Jewish culture, offers innovative readings of major contemporary writers in Israel and the English-speaking diaspora.
A Culinary Legacy by Viviane Bowell
Recipes from a Sephardi Egyptian kitchen The author was born and brought up in Cairo, Egypt. She was expelled with her family in 1956 as a result of the Suez crisis and came to...
Under the Iron Bridge by Kathy Kacer
It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and...
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation by Daniel C. Matt
Jewish Lives In the Bible Elijah is a zealous prophet, attacking idolatry and injustice, championing God. He performs miracles, restoring life and calling down fire. When his earthly life ends, he vanishes in a...
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel by Andrew Tobolowsky
New Identities Across Time and Space The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee
With David Brewster The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the...
A Persian Passover by Etan Basseri
Illustrator: Rashin Kheiriyeh Ezra and Roza are helping to prepare for their Passover celebration. Ezra is proud to be in charge of bringing his family’s flour to the synagogue to be baked into matzah...
Anna and Dr Helmy by Ronen Steinke
How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the...
