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,...
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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...
Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack
Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on...
NSFW by Isabel Kaplan
Blisteringly sharp and hypersmart―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul. From the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears to be the...
Keeping the Mystery Alive by Ariana Huberman
Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies....
Reb Dovid, Volume 1: Rav Meshulam Dovid HaLevi Soloveichik by Rabbi Shimon Meller
Continuing The Brisk Dynasty The Last of the Brisker Dynasty in our Generation: The Inspiring True Story of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik! This illuminating portrait of the life and teachings of “Reb Dovid” depicts...
Bubbie & Rivka’s Best-Ever Challah (So Far!) by Sarah Lynne Reul
Practice makes progress in this multigenerational story about family traditions and the pursuit of the perfect challah Bubbie and Rivka are not the best bakers . . . yet. But they are starting a...
All the Shining People by Kathy Friedman
Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto’s Jewish South African community,...
Living in Refuge by Leonardo Schiocchet
Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes...
