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The Giv­ing Table by Nao­mi Ross

The Giv­ing Table by Nao­mi Ross

Welcome to a delicious celebration of our most inspired cooking…the food we share! Food writer and veteran culinary educator Naomi Ross teaches us how to master the basics of home cooking. Savor morsels of...

Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler

Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler

The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past In 1785, when the...

Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer

Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer

Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love… Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love...

Noth­ing Could Stop Her by Rona Ara­to

Noth­ing Could Stop Her by Rona Ara­to

The Coura­geous Life of Ruth Gruber Illustrator: Isabel Muñoz Ruth Gruber didn’t want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Born to a Jewish American family in 1911,...

The Postcard by Carly Schabowski

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...

The Do More Club by Dana Kramaroff

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...

Beyond the Land by Melissa Weininger

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

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...