Happier Far by Diane Mehta
In Happier Far, Diane Mehta takes us on a funny and engrossing tour of the absurdities and dilemmas of becoming a writer, and how family can sometimes help us and sometimes get in the...
Category: New Books
Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 by Katerina Králová
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Documents the lives of Greek Jews who returned after surviving persecution, combat, and exile during World War II. Homecoming records the experiences of Greek...
Who Will Rescue Us? by Laura Hobson Faure
The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the...
Stories My Father Told Me by Seymour Ubell
A heartfelt tapestry of family, resilience, and the pursuit of the American dream. Through the eyes of Eric, Haskell Brodsky’s eldest son, the novel weaves together the multigenerational tale of a Polish Jewish family...
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson
In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives. What does it take to escape...
Emmanuel Levinas and His Interlocutors by Hanoch Ben-Pazi
The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas introduces a groundbreaking shift in ethical discourse by prioritizing the uniqueness of the “Other.” Levinas redefines morality by emphasizing the existential precedence of the “Other” over the self, challenging...
The Peddler and the President by Ann D. Koffsky
Illustrator: Pedro Rodriguez The true story of the lifelong friendship between President Harry Truman and salesman Eddie Jacobson and its impact on the founding of Israel. This 48-page early chapter book biography for ages...
A Fool’s Kabbalah by Steve Stern
In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world’s leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis . . . At the...
Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania by Saulius Sužiedėlis
Lithuanian Studies without Borders Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania is the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II which utilizes previously inaccessible archives as well as academic works published...
Hidden in Plain Sight by Julie Brill
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before...
