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Cammy Sitting Shiva by Cary Gitter

Cammy Sitting Shiva by Cary Gitter

This stirring debut novel is an unflinching, darkly funny look at loss, family, and coming home—perfect for fans of This Is Where I Leave You and Competitive Grieving. When Cy Adler dies, it’s a...

The Sur­vivor of the Holocaust by Jack Eis­ner

The Sur­vivor of the Holocaust by Jack Eis­ner

A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor’s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to smuggling food and arms for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and tenaciously enduring a series of...

A Light in the North­ern Sea by Tim Brady

A Light in the North­ern Sea by Tim Brady

Denmark’s Incred­i­ble Res­cue of Their Jew­ish Cit­i­zens Dur­ing WWII August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist transports a cache of explosives, hidden in a beer crate, to a Copenhagen hall being readied to house German troops....

Ketubah Renaissance by Michael Shapiro

Ketubah Renaissance by Michael Shapiro

The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah)...