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Dear Mutzi by Tess Scholfield-Peters

Dear Mutzi by Tess Scholfield-Peters

A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten Harry Peters — formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled...

You Are Allowed by Odelia Elgarat

You Are Allowed by Odelia Elgarat

A Story of Finding Where You Belong, Not Where You Began Esther, a young woman living in a kibbutz in the south of Israel, undertakes a journey to find her biological mother who abandoned...

My Hijack­ing by Martha Hodes

My Hijack­ing by Martha Hodes

A Per­son­al His­to­ry of For­get­ting and Remembering In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back...

Fifty-seven Fridays Myra L. Sack

Fifty-seven Fridays Myra L. Sack

Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way Foreword: Joanne Cacciatore Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative...

The Right to Happiness by Helen Schary Motro

The Right to Happiness by Helen Schary Motro

After all they went through. Stories New Jewish Fiction Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century. In eleven compelling stories inheritors...

Klara's Truth by Susan Weissbach Friedman

Klara’s Truth by Susan Weissbach Friedman

It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged...

Jack­pot Summer by Elyssa Fried­land

Jack­pot Summer by Elyssa Fried­land

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy lives will transform into sleek, storybook perfection–but they couldn’t be more wrong. The four Jacobson children were raised to...