The Politzer Saga by Linda A Broenniman
A housefire in 2011. The contents of a box that survives become the catalyst for a quest whose seeds were planted in 1983 – the day Linda Ambrus Broenniman learned that her Catholic father...
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Judith Kerr’s Creatures by Judith Kerr
A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith Kerr was one of the best-loved authors...
How To Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum
Translator: Daniella Zamir The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home,...
Yearning to Breathe Free by Professor Adam D. Mendelsohn, Jonathan D. Sarna (Editors)
Jews in Gilded Age America. Essays by Twenty Contributing Scholars New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish history The thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a...
A Teenage Girl in Auschwitz by Douglas Wellman
Basha Freilich and the Will to Live The true story of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl is torn from her home and family and thrust into one of history’s greatest atrocities, the concentration camp of Auschwitz....
Rebecca Reznik Reboots the Universe by Samara Shanker
Golems and Goblins Rebecca copes with family turmoil, a home invaded by demons, and what it means to grow up in this gripping sequel to Naomi Teitelbaum Ends the World that’s perfect for fans...
Jewish Sunday Schools by Laura Yares
Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing...
Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema by Dan Chyutin
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos had once deemed Judaic traditions...
Tatae’s Promise by Sherry Maysonave, Moises J. Goldman
Based on the true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz Hinda was eighteen years old when an axe crashed through the front door of her home in Poland. Nazi soldiers swarmed inside...
Counting on Naamah: A Mathematical Tale on Noah’s Ark by Erica Lyons
Illustrator: Mary Uhles Rosie Revere Engineer meets Noah’s Ark! What if Naamah, Noah’s wife, was actually a math and engineering whiz? Enjoy this fun, zany, and girl-powered take on the traditional Noah’s Ark story.
