Leizar by David Gelernter
Leizar is a gripping story through five generations, of one man’s journey against incredible adversity It’s 1843 in a little shtetl village in Russian occupied Poland. The baby is delivered amidst blood and pain...
Category: New Books
RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women by Nadine Epstein
33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone This collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models–selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court...
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America by Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, Anne Schenderlein (Editors)
Worlds of Consumption This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original...
Leibowitz or God’s Absence by Daniel Horowitz
As a scientist, philosopher and scholar in Jewish thought, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was one of the most noteworthy thinkers in the twentieth century. He was endowed with a remarkable intellect and was knowledgeable across a...
Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust by Rachel L. Einwohner
A powerful account of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable. Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, “Why didn’t Jews resist?”...
The Candy Man Mystery by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky
Illustrator: Christina Mattison Ebert In a synagogue, everyone plays an important role: the rabbi, the cantor, the teachers, and even the congregation. But some synagogues are lucky enough to have a candy man. Everyone...
A Requiem for Hania by Greg Dinner
In 1942, Hania Stern, a young Jewish girl in Warsaw and her family are caught up in the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Hania survives when so many others do not survive, escaping when...
Always Remember Your Name by Andra Bucci, Tatiana Bucci
A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz Translator: Ann Goldstein A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank’s Diary left off and gives voice...
Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community by Alex Pomson, Jack Wertheimer
Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education A perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as...
I Had a Brother Once by Adam Mansbach
A Memoir, a Poem Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book—when these words from his...
