The Takeaway Men by Meryl Ain
With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War...
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Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime by Max Hirshfeld
With essays by Michael Berenbaum and Stuart E. Eizenstat Raised by Polish Jewish parents in small-town Alabama in the ’50s and ’60s, American photographer Max Hirshfeld (born 1951) tells his parents’ Nazi-era love story...
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
Translator: Yael Lotan A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first...
Hip Set by Michael Fertik
Oscar Orleans is a Congolese refugee in Israel. He’s also the only Hebrew-speaking liaison to the African refugee community living in Tel Aviv’s worst slum. When his old friend Inspector Kobi Sambinsky of the...
European Genizah; Editor: Andreas Lehnardt
Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context. European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 5 This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz and Jerusalem, and presents new discoveries of binding fragments in...
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the...
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend by Sanford D. Greenberg
Foreword: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Introduction: Art Garfunkel The remarkable and inspiring story of a Columbia undergrad from a poor Jewish family who, after losing his eyesight to disease during his junior year, finds...
Bitter Herbs: Based on a true story of a Jewish girl in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by Marga Minco
When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it’s clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the Dutch Jews. But when...
The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey by Jesper Høgenhaven
In The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey, Jesper Høgenhavn presents a reading of the Copper Scroll as a literary text. For more than 60 years, scholars have debated whether or not the treasures...
Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman by Jodi Samuels
From Johannesburg to Jerusalem, with a stopover in Manhattan, Jodi Samuel’s mission is to change the world, one small, unique step at a time. As an entrepreneur, international speaker, special needs advocate and super...
