How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
Stonewall Honor author Jake Maia Arlow delivers a sapphic Jewish twist on the classic Christmas rom-com in a read perfect for fans of Kelly Quindlen and Casey McQuiston. It all starts when Shani runs...
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Monster Bar Mitzvah by Josh Anderson
In this unusual graphic novel for younger readers, Eli is feeling left out of the family’s preparations for his older brother’s bar mitzvah. He wants to help but can’t seem to do anything right....
My Name Is Hamburger by Jacqueline Jules
Trudie Hamburger is the only Jewish kid living in the small southern town of Colburn in 1962. Nobody else at her school has a father who speaks with a German accent or a last...
Solimeos by Rhoda Lerman
Fleeing post-World War II Germany, an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new, occult-obsessed, German Reich…but love, ambition, and vengeance interfere....
Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm by Austen Leah Rose
Juniper Prize for Poetry Does history live inside of us? Are we capable of transcending the past or are we destined to repeat it? With understated humor and grace, Once, This Forest Belonged to...
The Jews of Summer by Sandra Fox
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they...
Jews, Judaism, and Success by Robert Eisen
How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful...
Breadth and Meticulousness; Thoughts on “Why Are Jews Not Christians?” by Zeev Farber
I find that reading a book that deals with theology and history often challenges my own belief system. To be more precise it encourages me to examine the validity of my own thinking, faith,...
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It...
Yiddish Transformed by Nathan Cohen
Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914 As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began...
