The Dressmaker’s Parcels by Silvano Stagni
What turning point makes you decide to risk your life to bring about change? Emma Mendes was a girl from an upper-class Venetian family; she led a comfortable life. She was the eldest daughter...
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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
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
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...
Longing: Poems of a Life by Merle Feld
What do we long for as we carry the traumas of our past and look into the future with guarded hope? In Longing: Poems of a Life, acclaimed poet Merle Feld tells her intensely...
Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist by Tamás Turán
Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the University of Budapest. A wunderkind...
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...
Mouse Malachi Discovers the Sabbath by Dreama Archibald
Illustrator: Zhi Ling Lee Experience a never before seen perspective of life in Jerusalem through the tiny eyes of Mouse Malachi and Mouse Eva. Illuminating illustrations bring the dark cracks and crevices of the...
The Confidante by Christopher C. Gorham
The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes the first-ever biography...
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...
