Schlemiel Comes to America by Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Óscar Perez In this twist on the classic Jewish stories, Schlemiel lives in the famous town of Chelm, known as “the place of fools.” When one day he embarks on a journey to...
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Israeli Salvage Poetics by Sheila E. Jelen
Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the “negation of the diaspora” as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from...
Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story by Andrew Hesketh
The often-overlooked history of the German-Jewish refugee children of Gwrych Castle. In 1939, several German Jewish refugee children, traveling on the Kindertransport, found themselves in Abergele, North Wales. Would this be their temporary new...
Market Day by Pál Závada
Translator: Owen Good The Hungarian List A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into vindictive killers. What could bring people to form a mob and attack others? What circumstances could provoke a...
A Wing and A Prayer: My Life and Times by Malcolm Weisman
Reverend Malcolm Weisman OBE played a unique role in Anglo Jewry for nearly three quarters of a century. As an RAF Chaplain from 1957 and a Barrister at Law from 1961, he drove his...
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash by Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits (Editors )
Routledge Approaches to History This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they...
The Jake Show by Joshua S. Levy
In Joshua S. Levy’s hilarious and charming middle grade novel, a Jewish seventh grade boy is caught between the worlds of his divorced parents—with an orthodox mother and secular father, Jake must concoct a...
A Book About Bubkes by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Roxana de Rond This is a book about bupkes: nothing, zero, zilch. Sometimes, though, what looks like nothing turns out to be the most important thing of all. An empty garden seems like...
A Gift of Feathers by Ken Schept
Illustrator: Romina Galotta A picture book by Ken Schept and illustrated by Romina Galotta about the power of remembrance and intergenerational tradition. When she finds a feather, Grandma Dot adds it to her collection. Feathers,...
The Belarusian Shtetl: History and Memory by Irina Kopchenova, Mikhail Krutikov (Editors)
Jews of Eastern Europe For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English,...
