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...
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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...
Before All the World by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at...
28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David Safier
Inspired by true events, David Safier’s 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto is a harrowing historical YA that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust. Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles...
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...
