The Diary Keepers by Nina Siegal
World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens,...
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Arthur Szyk Preserved by Irvin Ungar, Samantha Lyons
Institutional Collections of Original Art An essential reference guide for learning where Arthur Szyk’s public works reside During his lifetime, Arthur Szyk (1894–1951)—the prolific Polish-Jewish artist celebrated for his exquisite miniature paintings, book illustrations,...
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworks. The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a...
On the Boundaries of Flexibility: Thoughts on “Shadows We Carry” by Meryl Ain
Reading a fine and grand family saga is its own reward. The pleasure one gets, or at least I got, from following the life of a family for about fifteen years–from the late 1960s...
Shelf Life by Martin Sneider
A Jewish-American family saga about the rise of its fashion retailing empire and how it splits and ultimately devastates the family. Shelf Life is a Jewish–American family saga about the rise of its fashion...
The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home by S. L. Wisenberg
Even as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she’s...
In the Shadow of the Wall by Vincent Lemire
The Life and Death of Jerusalem’s Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the...
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust by Richard E. Frankel
Routledge Studies in Modern History This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison...
Debbie’s Song by Ellen Leventhal
Illustrator: Natalia Grebtsova Debbie Friedman always had music inside her, and she dreamed of using her love of singing to do what no one else had done before―create Jewish music that would welcome, include,...
Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales by Sabrina Orah Mark
The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history...
