Displaced Persons: Stories by Joan Leegant
Set half in Israel and half in the United States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor...
Category: New Books
2,000 Miles To Freedom: Escape From Ukraine 1917-1921 by Carey Berg
Illustrator: Jeremy Wolfe Kivett In 2,000 Miles To Freedom, we follow the harrowing journey of Hyman Robbins, a man of immense courage and morality. Leaving his small Ukrainian village of Skvira in 1907, Hyman...
The Incorruptibles by Dan Slater
A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice...
The Tribal Challenge by Havatzelet Yahel
Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev Perspectives on Israel Studies Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel’s policy toward Bedouin...
Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton by Lori Dubbin
Illustrator: Amanda Quartey When Althea Gibson first dreamed of joining the big American tennis leagues, she was denied because she was Black. Angela Buxton dreamed of joining the best tennis clubs in Britain, but...
Talmud and Philosophy by Sergey Dolgopolski, James Adam Redfield (Editors)
Conjunctions, Disjunctions, Continuities New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of Western philosophy and the Talmud. Among many philosophers, the...
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,”...
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,...
