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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...

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...