Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each...
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Inventing William of Norwich by Heather Blurton
Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150 – 1200 William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of...
The Prisoner and the Writer by Heather Camlot
Illustrator: Sophie Casson When a Jewish army captain is falsely accused of treason and sent to prison, a writer uses his pen to fight for justice. In 1895 a prisoner watches the ocean through...
Honey and Me by Meira Drazin
Milla and Honey have been best friends since forever. Milla envies Honey’s confidence, her charisma, and her big, chaotic family―especially when they provide a welcome escape from Milla’s own small family and quiet house....
Don’t Worry, Just Cook Bonnie Stern and Anna Rupert
Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection “I tell you not to worry because I’ve done all the worrying for you!” Bonnie Stern, beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author, wants nothing more than for...
The Antiphonary of Love: The Call of the Scroll by Jacqueline Semha Gmach, Stephanie Johnstone Steinberg
A story of a young Tunisian girl who, despite a life filled with family, education, and diversity, is challenged by the events of the world around her. A secret discovery follows her through her...
Early Jewish Cookbooks by András Koerner
Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History The seven essays in this volume focus such previously unexplored subjects as the world’s first cookbook printed in Hebrew letters, published in 1854, and a wonderful 19th-century Jewish...
We Are Not One by Eric Alterman
A History of America’s Fight Over Israel A bestselling historian uncovers the surprising roots of America’s long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and...
The Auschwitz Protocols by Fred R. Bleakley
Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary’s Jews As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees...
Departure Stories by Elisa Bernick
Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and other lies) “We weren’t religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling ‘Goddammit!’” Elisa Bernick grew up “different” (i.e., Jewish)...
