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...
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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,...
Eighteen Days in October by Uri Kaufman
The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was...
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
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...
