The Kosher Delhi by Ivan Wainewright
“If you ask me now if it was all worth it, would I do it all again, then I know I am supposed to say, ‘Yes! I wouldn’t change a thing.’ I’m just not...
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Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller
Editors: Shaul Seidler-Feller, David N. Myers Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty...
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr....
DNA, or The Book of Brad: A comic novel about finding family by Monica Bauer
A laugh out loud romantic dramedy and multi-generational family saga! A DNA test sends adoptee Rose Pettigrew, a young black lawyer, on a sometimes wildly comic, sometimes touching journey to find her Jewish family....
May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych by Rachmil Bryks
May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In “Those Who Didn’t Survive,” Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with...
The Usual Uncertainties: Stories by Jonathan Blum
Jonathan Blum’s highly anticipated first collection–is storytelling at its finest. In precise, elegant prose, these stories follow characters and communities often consigned to the edge of the frame: a community college dropout, a geriatric...
Haven’s Point by Darrin J Friedman
The aftermath of the war between the states has not been kind to Confederate General Jonathan Abraham. The once-formidable “Jew General of the South” has become an impoverished recluse, cut off from the world...
Arguing about Judaism: A Rabbi, a Philosopher and a Revealing Debate by Peter Cave, Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Arguing about Judaism differs from other introductions to Judaism. It is unique, not solely in its engaging dialogues between a Reform rabbi and a humanist, atheist philosopher, but also in its presentation of and challenges...
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
From the days of her childhood in the 1950s Midwest, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem. As she matures from a girl of rare intelligence into...
Beyond the Ghetto Gates by Michelle Cameron
When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide. Mirelle,...
