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Pro­fes­sor Schif­f’s Guilt by Agur Schiff

Pro­fes­sor Schif­f’s Guilt by Agur Schiff

Translator: Jes­si­ca Cohen A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a...

The Last Train by Peter Bradley

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...

How to Become an Amer­i­can by Daniel Wolff

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...

The Post­card by Anne Berest

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

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

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...

Jews and Christians in the Roman World by Steve Mason

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...