The Light of Seven Days by River Adams
Living with her Babby after her parents’ death, 10-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad’s legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and...
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I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom by Kim Dower
2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist! Kim Dower’s poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,” and by O Magazine as...
Different: The Strange Story of Darius Stein by David Gelernter
In the shadowed aftermath of World War Two, an unwanted black infant is cruelly left at the steps of an all-white orphanage. This is Darius Stein’s harsh welcome to a world seething with bias...
The Watchmaker’s Daughter by Larry Loftis
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during...
Multidisciplinary anti-shaming; Thoughts on “Exposing Systems of Anti-Jewishness” by Earon S. Davis
The book’s subtitle: How Bigotry Spread Through Christianity, Islam, Marxism, and Fascist Europe You may be suspicious, like I am, when someone claims their approach is multidisciplinary. You may also think to yourself with...
Searching for Home by Robert Pack
Searching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three figures, each...
The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets by Stefan Hertmans
Translator: David McKay In this revealing and poignant story, Stefan Hertmans uncovers haunting details about the previous owner of his house and the crime he committed as a member of the Nazi police. In...
Jewish Paideia: Education and Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora by Jason M. Zurawski
Jewish Paideia investigates diverse self-reflections on what it meant to be Jewish in Hellenistic and early Roman Diaspora communities by examining depictions of ideal Jewish education, or paideia, in the literature of the period....
The Cellist of Dachau by Martin Goodman
The Cellist of Dachau is an acclaimed and “masterful” novel of the Holocaust— the legacy that haunts us, and the music that binds us. In 1938, Otto Schalmik, a 19-year-old musician from a Jewish...
The Inside Name by Randi Sonenshine
Illustrator: Gina Capaldi Felipe has a secret. He and his family are conversos—Jews forced to convert to Christianity after 1497 but who maintained their Jewish identities and practices behind closed doors. Even his real...
