Izzy: A Life Inside The Old Philly Jew Mob by Fred Lavner
What a time! Philadelphia from the Roaring 20s to the boom years of the 1950s and 60s, when cash was king and there were always sharpies and racketeers looking to take it from you....
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Torah IQ: The Great Torah Riddle Book by David Woolf
Editor: Yitz Woolf More than 1,500 questions and answers on the parshiyot, the calendar, the chagim, halachot and Torah trivia-perfect for different ages and levels of knowledge.
The Girl From Over There: The Hopeful Story of a Young Jewish Immigrant by Sharon Rechter
Illustrator: Karla Gerard In the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II, a young Jewish immigrant struggles to fit into her new home as she combats bullying and jealousy from the other children...
From Hell to Challah: Rising from Fragile to Fearless, One Grain at a Time by Shari Wallack
In from hell to challah, Shari Wallack’s journey begins inside a mental hospital and continues on a road trip to eighteen destinations throughout the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. She details her innermost...
Send For Me by Lauren Fox
Germany 1930s. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents’ popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumours that anti-Jewish sentiment is...
Conquering Jerusalem by Stephen Dando-Collins
Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in recent years to illuminate the people and events as...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz
This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904–1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to feature Jewish children characters. The family—based...
2207 South Green Road by Janice C Spector
A poignant and humorous story of love despite dysfunction among an assimilating extended Jewish family riddled with secrets in suburban Cleveland during 1961. While in today’s world they would just seem a bit eccentric,...
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who...
The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity by Jason A. Staples
In this book, Jason Staples proposes a new paradigm regarding the biblical concept of Israel and how it was shaped by Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration after the Babylonian Exile. Challenging conventional assumptions about...
