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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...

Fractured Tablets by Mira Balberg

Fractured Tablets by Mira Balberg

Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to...

Good for a Single Journey by Helen Joyce

Good for a Single Journey by Helen Joyce

Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII At the outbreak of WWI, the Spiegels flee their home in Poland. The Hasidic couple struggles to adjust to life in Vienna. One daughter is in love with a...