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Ros­alind Looked Clos­er by Lisa Gerin

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...

Hiding in Plain Sight by Pieter van Os

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

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...

The Blumkin Project by Chris­t­ian Salmon

The Blumkin Project by Chris­t­ian Salmon

A Bio­graph­i­cal Novel Translator: William Rodar­mor This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had...

A Castle in Brooklyn by Shirley Russak Wachtel

A Castle in Brooklyn by Shirley Russak Wachtel

Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendship, and the dream of finding home. 1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances....