The Last Train by Peter Bradley
A Family History of the Final Solution The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November...
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How to Become an American by Daniel Wolff
A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness An odyssey from pre–Civil War Charleston to post–World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants’ eyes The histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in...
If Only You Could Bottle It by Jack Nusan Porter
Memoirs of a Radical Son Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical...
The Postcard by Anne Berest
Translator: Tina Kover Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of...
Light Rises by Rachel Wesson
An utterly emotional, page-turning WW2 historical novel The Resistance Sisters France, 1942: With Europe struggling under German occupation, Sophie Bélanger, grieving the deaths of her brother, fiancé and friends, is no longer prepared to...
Tzimmes for Tzipporah by Megan Hoyt
Illustrator: Christine Battuz This count down to the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah explores life and celebration on a family farm through the eyes of a young girl allowed to help with preparations for...
Parallel Lines by Ruth Marks Eglash
Imagine coming of age surrounded by terror and militancy. Tamar, Nour, and Rivki all live in Jerusalem, and all are on the cusp of adulthood, but in a city of tribal culture and an...
Jews and Christians in the Roman World by Steve Mason
From Historical Method to Cases Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Roman Judaea, Christian origins, and Roman-Judaean-Christian relations are flourishing fields of endless fascination. Amid the flurry of new research, however, which uses ever new...
Jews in Post-War Wrocław and L’viv by Izabela Kazejak
Official Policy and Local Responses in comparative perspective, 1945–1970s Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Izabela Kazejak examines the process of re-establishing Jewish communities in two cities: Wrocław, which passed from Germany to Poland...
Charwood by Josh Schlossberg
Dark doings are afoot in the forests of Charwood… After joining the Tenders, a band of backwoods activists claiming to solve climate change by burning trees for energy, Orna Tannenbaum falls in with Rowan,...
