Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures? In 1958, amongst the children born with spina...
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Bringing Down the Temple House by Marjorie Lehman
Engendering Tractate Yoma HBI Series on Jewish Women A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological lens is not new to...
The Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel—a love story and a tale of high-stakes...
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah by Shaye J.D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, Hayim Lapin (Editors)
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah...
What Does a Jew Look Like? by Keith Kahn-Harris, Robert Stothard
“What does a Jew look like?” Well, it’s complicated… Too often, the answer seems to be: “Jews wear black hats, black coats and have beards.” Of course, some do, but the answer to the...
The Renegade Reporters by Elissa Brent Weissman
When Ash gets kicked off her school’s news show, she becomes a renegade reporter–and makes a big discovery about technology and her fellow students’ privacy. Ash and her friends are reporters. They were ready...
Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth Behar
Illustrator: Devon Holzwarth A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella’s Tía Fortuna...
The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis by Gergely Kunt
The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950) Foreword: Susan Rubin SuleimanTranslator: Maya J. Lo Bello Gaudiopolis (The City of Joy) was a pedagogical experiment that operated in...
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai by Matti Friedman
The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs In October 1973, the poet...
When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Three friends. One memory.Vienna. 1936. Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped...
