The Insider by Harry D. Stern
Book 2 of 2: Bargal-Canaan Series The Insider is a page-turning tale of vengeance and duplicity. An international terror plot targeting New York City becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse with Iran’s...
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The Puttermans Are in the House by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
A heartfelt and hopeful middle grade novel from Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, author of the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Wishing Upon the Same Stars, about family, joy, and growing up in the aftermath...
Eating at God’s Table: How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities by Jody Myers
Foreword: Matt Goldish Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox communities? How...
The Botanist’s Tracks by Michael Reit
Beyond the Tracks Book Felicia Hodaks’s vital botanical skills are the only thing keeping her away from the gas chambers. Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s ever-present brutality, Felicia tends to the plants needed for...
We Survived the Holocaust by Frank W. Baker
The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story Illustrator: Tim Ogline During Adolf Hitler’s rule over Germany, there were over 40,000 Nazi concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population...
A Brilliant Life by Rachelle Unreich
My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability...
The Last Israelite by Allen Childs MD
AD 878. Three mysterious figures board a Red Sea sailing vessel, Dressed as Muslims they are in fact, Jews, far away from their home in Babylon. They are on a secret mission to transport...
All Aboard for Noah’s Ark! by Elana Azose
Illustrator: Monica Garofalo Noah is building an ark and Lionel and Dolores, a pair of hedgehogs, are there to make sure the plan goes off without a hitch. “But you’re so tiny,” Noah says,...
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature by Vered Tohar
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and...
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age by Rachel Z. Feldman
Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to realize biblical prophecies,...
