Until the Blueberries Grow by Jennifer Wolf Kam
Illustrator: Sally Walker Until the blueberries grow . . . until the grapes are ripe . . . until the snow falls . . . until the flowers bloom . . . Ben tries...
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A Man of Success in the Land of Success by Łukasz Tomasz Sroka
The Biography of Marcel Goldman, a Kracovian in Tel Aviv Translated by Katarzyna Rogalska-Chodecka This book tells the story of Holocaust survivor and prominent banker Marcel Goldman, born in Krakow in 1926. Goldman started...
The Heresy of Jacob Frank by Jay Michaelson
From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi,...
Strange Creatures by Phoebe North
From acclaimed author Phoebe North comes a riveting, unexpected, and beautiful contemporary novel about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories—real and imagined—that they tell...
Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine
Edited by Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay Biographies and Geographies When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed...
A Daughter’s Kaddish by Sarah Birnbach
My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing A woman breaks with Jewish tradition to honor her late father in this moving memoir of faith, grief, and transformation. A Daughter’s Kaddish recounts Sarah Birnbach’s year-long...
The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the...
Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham
A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her 1955 in New York City: the city of instant coffee,...
Siddur Hatefillah by Eliezer Schweid
The Jewish Prayer Book. Philosophy, Poetry, and Mystery Translated from the Hebrew by Gershon Greenberg Hebrew University Professor and Israel Prize recipient Emeritus Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022), widely recognized a one of the greatest historians...
From Generation to Generation by Michelle Weinfeld
A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity in the Aftermath of the Shoah Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, but Michelle Weinfeld’s grandfather survived. In this intergenerational memoir, the author weaves her...
