The Glass Château by Stephen Kiernan
From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and...
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Mistress of Life and Death by Susan J. Eischeid
The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women’s Camp at Auschwitz- Birkenau The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of...
The Little Matzah Ball Who Wanted to be a Meatball by Aaron Pickus
The book’s food puns and relatable message that everyone belongs will be a familiar flavor for adults and kids who know what it feels like to be different. I’m a first-time author, who grew...
Star Crossed by Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall
A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler’s Paris For readers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah who are hungry for a non-fiction account of Nazi-occupied Paris, Star Crossed is an epic...
British Jews and Imperial Service by Stephanie M. Chasin
Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India In the wake of the devastating WWI, three Jews headed the most valuable territory in the British Empire in addition to a strategically important...
Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps by Ian Baxter
Images of War A collection of graphic contemporary images of Nazi concentration camp conditions during liberation in 1944 and 1945. As the Allies closed in on Hitler’s Germany the horror and scale of the...
As a Burning Flame: The Dream of Regina Jonas by Noa Mishkin
A beautifully illustrated graphic novel—part introduction to the first ordained Ashkenazi woman rabbi, and part lyric memoir on the author’s experience as a religious feminist Jew. As a Burning Flame: The Dream of Regina...
The Guardian of Memory: Aldo Izzo and the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of Venice by Marjorie Agosín
Translator: Alison RidleyPhotography: Samuel Shats Marjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, and activist, as well as Professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. The United Nations has...
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel
In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story –...
The Missing Hand by Susan Van Dusen
A stolen heirloom reveals long-buried sins among a peaceful Midwestern Jewish community in this mystery from the author of Poisoned Passover. While running the Crestfall, Illinois, Torah study group can be rewarding, it isn’t...
