Together in Manzanar by Tracy Slater
The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her...
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Jacob in Jubilees: Jacob, the Torah and the Abrahamic Promise by Topias K. E. Tanskanen
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies The patriarch Jacob functions as the main character in Jubilees, one of the most important early Jewish texts outside the Bible. This study investigates two important connections made by...
Sesame: Global Recipes & Stories of an Ancient Seed by Rachel Simons
A clear, approachable guide to the world of sesame, from halva, tahini, and sesame oil, to togarashi, gomasio and furikake, with 80+ vegetarian-forward recipes, from the founder of popular tahini outfit Seed+Mill in New...
Brazilian Belonging: Jewish Politics in Cold War Latin America by Michael Rom
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The...
The Spoon and the Sea by Mrs. Rachel Hayley Caplin
A sweeping historical novel of identity, memory and belonging – across Zanzibar, London, and Jerusalem A richly woven novel about memory, identity, and the tangled threads of family across continents and generations. Ashi has...
The Lost Masterpiece by B.A. Shapiro
An enigmatic painting. The mystery of who painted it. A riveting thriller from the bestselling author of The Art Forger. In a gripping novel full of plot twists, B. A. Shapiro embeds us in a...
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture by Axel Stähler
This book explores in a comparative approach the astounding medial variety and intermedial interleaving of cultural engagements with the subject of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in nineteenth-century...
Four Survivor Grandparents: Run. Rely. Rebuild. by Jonathan Schloss
Holocaust Heritage Throughout World War II, four orphaned Jewish teenagers faced critical, life-altering decisions almost daily. In awe of the miracles that led to his existence, Shaya & Feigele and Romek & Sala’s grandson...
I Don’t Know How To Tell You This by Marian Thurm
A complex family drama with a Manhattan family court judge at its center. I Don’t Know How to Tell You This focuses on Judge Rachel Sugarman and her life both inside and outside the courtroom....
Flight Without End by Joseph Roth
Translators: David Le Vay and Beatrice Musgrave A soldier travels through Europe on a doomed mission to track down his fiancée in this masterful and vivid evocation of life between the wars Franz Tunda,...
