Deceit by Yuri Felsen
Translator: Bryan Karetnyk Once considered the ‘Russian Proust’, Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar Europe in Deceit, an experimental novel in the form of a diary that...
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And None Shall Make Them Afraid by Rick Richman
Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel This is the story of how Zionism, supported by Americanism, created a modern miracle—told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history. And...
Help funding “D is for Donut” by Rachel Teichman (author of “B is for Bagel”)
From the book’s crowdsourcing page: After the success of my first book, B is for Bagel, I decided to write D is for Donut. From Apple Fritter to Zeppole, kids are sure to learn...
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman’s final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos―and into an ill-advised affair with a married...
Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety by Harry Freedman
As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of anxiety. Jews in Britain have risen to the...
The Cello Still Sings by Janet Horvath
A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music Holocaust Heritage A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is...
A Gefilte Fishy Tale by Allison Marks
Illustrator: Renée Andriani Funny rhymes and charming illustrations bring a family’s pre-Shabbos predicament to life! It’s Friday morning and, as usual, Bubbe Judy has brought home a giant jar of gefilte fish-her grandson Jack’s...
De-Integrate!: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century by Max Czollek
Translator: Jon Cho-Polizzi A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past—and a handbook for minorities on how...
The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz
A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Translator: Eric M. B. Becker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the...
Ring of Solomon by Aden Polydoros
This exciting and adventurous start to a middle-grade trilogy follows a queer boy and his family as they try to halt the chaotic effects of a mysterious ring, drawing upon Jewish mythology to navigate...
