In the Family Way by Laney Katz Becker
Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one...
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Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook by Marc B. Shapir
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Rav Kook (1865–1935), the first chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, was a revered thinker whose ideas were in the vanguard of religious Zionist ideology. His theological positions have...
The Secrets My Mother Kept by Elana Milman
A gripping heart-wrenching historical novel based on a true story One fateful choice changed their lives forever. Germany, 1946. Still picking up the pieces in the aftermath of World War II, Franka and her...
The Trunk by Alberto Vigevani
Translator: Wil Schutt Alberto Vigevani’s The Trunk (originally La breve passeggiata), now available in English, is a poignant and lyrical portrait of an Italian-Jewish family navigating the rising tide of Fascism through the lens...
The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture: Between Practice and Phantasm by Halina Goldberg, Bożena Shallcross (Editors),
Jews of Eastern Europe The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality,...
Rembrandt Chooses a Queen by Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry Olitzky
Illustrator: Cinzia Battistel Is there a story behind Rembrandt’s famous painting of Queen Esther? In Rembrandt Chooses a Queen, the famous artist has a problem. He wants to paint a scene from the biblical...
American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews by Andrew Porwancher
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacy A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the...
Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust by Rachel Deblinger
The Modern Jewish Experience How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America,...
The Girl from Újhely: An Untold Story of the Hungarian Holocaust by Philip Schlaeger
Inspired by actual events in the Hungarian Holocaust of 1944-45, The Girl from Ujhely centers on Essie Silberglade, a fictional Holocaust survivor, whose chilling memoir is discovered by her grandson upon her death. Essie...
The Judgment of YoYo Gold by Isaac Blum
A smart and powerful story set in the Orthodox Jewish community about what it means to fit in, break out, and find your own way, by the award-winning author of The Life and Crimes of...
