The Apple Argument by Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Anita Barghigiani In the Garden of Eden, as soon as God buried Vegetables in the ground, and put Fruits on trees and vines, the Fruits began to argue among themselves. “I am hardiest,”...
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The Sisters Z by Kerry Olitzky and Deborah Bodin Cohen
Illustrator: Lena Tohoff Meet the spunkiest five sisters of the Bible: Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. The Sisters Z. Orphaned, the Sisters Z have learned to stick together and stand up for their...
Jewishness and Beyond by Miklós Konrád
Jewish Conversions in Hungary 1825–1914 Translator: Jason Vincz Studies in Hungarian History Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary’s government steadily dismantled obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish communities from enjoying the full benefits of...
Rebecca’s Prayer for President Lincoln by Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Laura Barella Each night when she says her prayers, Rebecca thinks of her Papa who lost a hand while fighting in President Lincoln’s war. He still believes the war was righteous: “We Jews,...
Hasidic Commentary on the Torah by Ora Wiskind–Elper
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Hasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis, upheaval, and renewal, it remains a...
The Little General: A Legacy of Resilience by Robert “Bolek” Becker
The Story of a Holocaust Survivor and His Unbreakable Spirit Immerse yourself in the poignant and inspiring pages of Robert ‘Bolek’ Becker’s The Little General. This extraordinary memoir transcends the ordinary, offering a deeply...
Jewish Odesa by Marina Sapritsky-Nahum
Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine The Modern Jewish Experience Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life in Ukraine’s port city of...
Spark of Hope: An Autobiography by Luba Wrobel Goldberg
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII Luba is born into a poor Jewish family in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She provides a unique lens into a now vanished world, as she describes her childhood in...
A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me by Yevgenia Nayberg
A young girl forms a special connection to the modernist painter Florine Stettheimer, and imagines herself joining in on Florine’s exciting life. When a young girl visits the museum, she finds an unexpected friend...
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?” In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned...
