Building by Leah Wachsler
Clunk.Thunk. Brumm. Vrumm. Clang.Clong. The big empty lot near Nosson’s house is full of excavators, trucks, front loaders and bulldozers. How Nosson loves all the action! Every day, he watches the workers and tries...
Category: New Books
Seeking Refuge by Irene N. Watts
In this follow-up to the successful Goodbye Marianne, Irene Watts explores what it is like for a young refugee girl to flee Nazi-occupied Austria alone. The poignant story is relatable to the terrible situation...
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory by Elizabeth Rosner
As firsthand survivors of many of the twentieth century’s most monumental events―the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fields―begin to pass away, Survivor Café addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do...
The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism by Moshe Lavee
The Unique Perspective of the Bavli on Conversion and the Construction of Jewish Identity In this volume, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, and shows how the...
Anne Frank by Diego Agrimbau
When she turned thirteen years old, Anne received a gift that would change her life: a personal diary. In it, she expressed her desires, fears and hopes while living in confinement with her family...
Room for Rent by Leah Goldberg
When Sir Reginald Mouse disappears from his apartment, the neighbors in the building advertise his room for rent. One prospective renter after another comes to see the apartment but finds fault with one or...
Hedy’s Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust by Michelle Bisson
It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy’s family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but...
Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism; Engaging with John Collins’ The Apocalyptic Imagination
Edited by Cecilia Wassen and Sidnie White Crawford It has been over 30 years since John Collins’ seminal study The Apocalyptic Imagination first came out. In this timely volume, Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism:...
Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty,...
Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
Sondra Silverston (Translator) Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal...
