Beinoni by Mari Lowe
In a Beinoni time there should be no war, no terrible illness, no crime. Even if that also means there won’t be any great discoveries, any cures, anything extraordinary. Ezra believes that’s worth fighting...
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Mordecai M. Kaplan: Restless Soul by Jenna Weissman Joselit
An engaging biography that goes behind the myths to reveal the complex life of a transformative figure in modern American Judaism Rabbi, writer, teacher, and thinker, Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881–1983) was one of...
Beneath the Lightless Sky by Ignacy Chiger
Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of Lvov Ignacy Chiger (1906-1975) recounts his family’s desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where they hid in the city’s underground sewers with the...
The Right Blessing: An Identity Story by Kerry Olitzky, Samantha Orshan Kahn
Illustrator: Violet Tobacco Joey has always felt different, especially when playing with friends like Adam or sitting with the girls at recess. By age nine, she knows she’s not a boy, but telling her...
33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
An outstanding debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment house in Belgium during World War II. On the eve of...
The Future Is Peace by Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon
A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy,...
The Last Woman of Warsaw by Judy Batalion
A debut novel by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days, following two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search...
Never Fitting In by Sonia Claire Ascher
My Journey with Parental Trauma, Addiction, Healing In 1938, during Kristallnacht, Sonia Ascher’s father was seized by the Nazis from his home in Germany and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. This memoir follows her...
The Mystery of the Mermaid by Leah Cypess
Illustrator: Sarah Lynne Reul A charming chapter-book series about a young Orthodox Jewish girl out to discover the truth about all the magical mysteries in her world, perfect for fans of Marya Khan and Zoey...
Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
The Story of the Jewish Bund In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the...
