How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even...
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Tales from the Borderlands by Omer Bartov
Making and Unmaking the Galician Past Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the...
A Cry in Unison by Judy Cohen
The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Judy’s joyful childhood in Debrecen, Hungary, is left behind when the Nazis invade in 1944. The cattle cars take Judy and her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she...
Sid Gordon An American Baseball Story by Steven D. Cahn
A Jewish Boys Journey from the Brooklyn Sandlots to Major League Baseball Sid Gordon was a Brooklyn kid who learned his craft on the local sandlots. He grew up in the shadows of Ebbets...
Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet by Robert Pinsky
In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a...
Wishing Upon the Same Stars by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
This powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship—and herself. Perfect for fans of...
Rosalind Looked Closer by Lisa Gerin
An Unsung Hero of Molecular Science Illustrator: Chiara Fedele The story of a persistent woman whose research in molecular biology changed the world. As a Jewish girl in England, Rosalind Franklin grew up against...
The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism: Liturgy, Ritual and Community
Volume Editors: Claudia Bergmann, Tessa Rajak, Benedikt Kranemann, and Rebecca Ullrich Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity The powerful poetry of the Hebrew Psalms articulates a unique range of experience, even in translation. They explore...
Hiding in Plain Sight by Pieter van Os
How a Jewish Girl Survived Europe’s Heart of Darkness Translator: David Doherty An extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a...
Ridley Road by Jo Bloom
When twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, moves to London to make a new start, she quickly finds herself swept up in a city buzzing with life, on the cusp of the...
