The Mitzvah of Repentance by Robert Colton
Mitzvah, an act of Kindness. Repentance, to amend for one’s transgressions. The Fischers, a prominent St. Louis family, take in a German refugee after the conclusion of World War II. The arrival of Magda...
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Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life As a Failed Child Star by Tamara Yajia
A hilarious, moving memoir by Argentine-American comedian Tamara Yajia about growing up between two worlds. From the day she was born, Tamara Yajia entered the world on a wave of absurdity. She was the...
Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration by Victoria Khiterer
Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration discusses the Holocaust in Kyiv and the efforts to memorialize the Babyn Yar massacre. Babyn Yar is one of the largest Holocaust sites...
Violin: A Holocaust Novel in Memory of the Silenced by S. A. Bsoul
Set during the Holocaust, Violin is a haunting and lyrical exploration of love, loss, and survival. This is Chava’s story—a young Jewish girl whose innocence is shattered by the rise of the Nazi regime....
The Ship to America by Richard D. Bank
The Ship to America is a work of fiction based on the experiences of an extended Russian Jewish family fleeing oppression in Ukraine during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Seventeen-year-old Dave...
A Precise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort
A life-long commitment to social evolution – and, occasionally, revolution – animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort’s debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort’s peripatetic poems reflect...
Games of Inheritance: Kabbalah, Tradition, and Authorship in Jorge Luis Borges by Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual...
Suicides, Secrets, and Sacred Questions: Reading Beyond the Pain
Thoughts on “Here There Is No Why” by Philip Graubart Pain can be a powerful driving force in one’s actions, both in how it motivates certain behaviors and how it guides actions to avoid...
Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West by Jonathan L. Friedmann
Only a few Westerns contain explicitly Jewish stories or themes, and very rarely do Old West tales involve identifiably Jewish characters. Yet Jewish contributors have shaped the Western—once Hollywood’s most popular genre—ever since the...
New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society by David N. Myers, Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe
Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society...
