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A Symphony of Remembrance by Stefan A. Carter

A Symphony of Remembrance by Stefan A. Carter

Introduction: Katarzyna Person The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Stefan grows up in Warsaw, Poland, barely aware he is Jewish and part of a small, assimilated community steeped in Polish culture. But in...

A Stur­dy Yes of a Peo­ple by Joan Nes­tle

A Stur­dy Yes of a Peo­ple by Joan Nes­tle

Select­ed Writings Extraordinary collection of new and beloved work by writer, thinker, and theorist Joan Nestle. For over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and...

First Impressions by Joseph A. Skloot

First Impressions by Joseph A. Skloot

Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the...

Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger

Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger

From the award-winning author of The View from Stalin’s Head, a stunning novel about two sheltered Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to America to make a new life, who find themselves trapped in...

A Worthy Life by Dahlia Moore

A Worthy Life by Dahlia Moore

Based on a True Story New Jewish Fiction When Abigail finds her grandmother’s diary, the atrocious memories of the Holocaust horrors suddenly crash into the lives of the two women. Abigail knows that her...