The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work–Chernobyl–has exploded. Before they know it, the...
Category: New Books
Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir by Barbara Gilford
When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, the Buchsbaum family chose different paths to escape Nazi brutality. Intelligence was not enough to survive the SS; bad decisions could prove fatal. Their stories live...
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi by Sigal Samuel
Illustrator: Vali Mintzi Osnat was born five hundred years ago – at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read. Yet Osnat’s father was...
Cornerstones: The Bible and Jewish Ideology by Hayyim Angel
The Tanakh is the cornerstone of Jewish thought and religious life. The serious study of Tanakh requires constant effort, as we sift through the commentaries who are locked in a perpetual state of debate....
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís
In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up...
The Poetry of Secrets by Cambria Gordon
Perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein, this lyrical portrait of hidden identities and forbidden love is set against the harrowing backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Isabel Perez carries secrets with her...
God of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction by Rabbi Shais Taub
God of Our Understanding is a frank and penetrating look at the underlying spiritual dynamics of addiction and its treatment through Twelve-Step programs. Rabbi Shais Taub, a world renown expert in Jewish mysticism as...
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid
Translated by Yardenne Greenspan Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young...
The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust; edited by Tom Lawson, Andy Pearce
This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe’s Jews, from...
The Adventures of Rumi and Baruch Bear by Yehuda Rothstein
Illustrator: Nasim Jenabi The Adventures of Rumi and Baruch Bear is a story about friendship inspired by the wisdom of the Talmud and the Persian poet Rumi. With her friend, Baruch Bear, at her...
