The Opera Sisters by Marianne Monson
Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England....
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Crooked Lines: A Single Mom’s Jewish Journey by Jenna Zark
When you part company with the life you’ve been living, how do you start a new one?While trying to sort out the answer to this question–along with the question of what being Jewish meant...
Love by Maayan Eitan
An incendiary tale of sex work from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novel about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification...
Splash! Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change by Elisa Boxer
Illustrator: Elizabeth Baddeley Ethelda Bleibtrey was a girl with guts who loved the water. As a child with polio in the early 1900s, swimming set her free. The water released her from her pain...
Flower of Vlora: Growing up Jewish in Communist Albania by Anna Kohen
Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII Covering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a funny and tense account of Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania and how they were saved from...
The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz
A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what kind of person he wants to be In The Prince of Steel Pier, Joey Goodman is spending the summer at...
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman by Hannah Arendt
Translator: Clara Winston and Richard Winston Introduction: Barbara Hahn A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one...
Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy
This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution. This book is about common ground. It is...
Dance the Hora, Isadora by Gloria Koster
Illustrator: Barbara Bongini A young girl learns the Hora at her cousin’s wedding, then brings her new moves to dance class. Chloe is our step-dance star. Tap-tap go her toes. Up go her knees,...
Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein
From the author of the “funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining” (Marie Claire) Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the...
