The Postcard by Carly Schabowski
A completely gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical novel Holding the faded postcard in her trembling hands, Mia begins to read the one story her grandmother could never tell her, revealing a secret...
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The Do More Club by Dana Kramaroff
A Jewish boy’s bravery and kindness are tested after an antisemitic attack on his middle school in this rousing novel-in-verse. Ever since twelve-year-old Josh Kline found an antisemitic note in his family’s mailbox in...
Funny, You Don’t Look Funny by Jennifer Caplan
Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more...
Beyond the Land by Melissa Weininger
Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora...
Resisters by Wolf Gruner
How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust Drawing on twelve...
Heroes with Chutzpah by Deborah Bodin Cohen, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky
101 True Tales of Jewish Trailblazers, Changemakers & Rebels A young teenager who spoke out for gun control in front of tens of thousands. An Israeli street artist who painted an ancient city with...
Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s by Bernard Malamud
The long-awaited third and final volume of Library of America’s edition of Bernard Malamud’s writings brings together three novels and thirteen stories of the 1970s and 80s that reaffirm his place in the American...
Let There Be Light-Genesis by Richard Rinberg, Hayim ben Yosef Tawil
This book is designed to allow you, the intelligent layperson, biblical student, or scholar, to better understand and appreciate the plain and simple meaning of the text of the Book of Genesis. The biblical...
Framing the Holocaust by Valerie Hébert (Editor)
In December 1941, German police and their local collaborators shot 2,749 Jews at the beach in Šķēde, near Liepāja, Latvia. Twelve photographs were taken at the scene. These now-infamous images show people in extreme...
Kayla and Kugel’s Silly Sukkot by Ann D. Koffsky
Kayla and her mischievous dog Kugel are back to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and explain it to young children. In the fourth Kayla and Kugel book, Kayla helps her family build and...
