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Looking for an Enemy by Jo Glanville (Editor)

Looking for an Enemy by Jo Glanville (Editor)

8 Essays on Antisemitism Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence. From medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy...

Mount Chicago by Adam Levin

Mount Chicago by Adam Levin

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most...

The End of Her by Wayne Hoff­man

The End of Her by Wayne Hoff­man

Rac­ing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder “A murder mystery wrapped like a delicious knish around a familial love story. The End of Her is the story of a journalist attempting to solve the...

Dershowitz Family Saga by Zecharia Dor-Shav

Dershowitz Family Saga by Zecharia Dor-Shav

A Century and a Half of Jewish Life in Poland,Through America, and Into Israel The Dershowitz Family Saga traces the significant modern events for world Jewry from the perspective of one immigrant family: their...

The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel

The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel

The memoir of a Holocaust survivor keeping alive the stories of his generation. For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors. Volunteering at Melbourne’s...

The Teacher of Warsaw by Mario Escobar

The Teacher of Warsaw by Mario Escobar

For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably—except for one man’s capacity to love. September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the...