Costalegre by Courtney Maum
It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. In the haute-bohemian circles of Austria, Germany, and Paris, Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of “cultural degenerates”—artists, writers, and thinkers whose work...
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Josephus’s The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman
The Jewish War is Josephus’s superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control...
The Book of Sarah by Sarah Lightman
There is no “Book of Sarah” in the Bible, so artist Sarah Lightman sets out to make her own. In this quietly subversive graphic autobiography, Lightman follows the urge to find herself in the...
Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
Illustrator: Gabi Swiatkowska Foreword: John Green With a gorgeous new package and a foreword from bestselling author John Green, the deluxe edition of The Golden Rule spreads the message of kindness to a new...
We Love Anderson Cooper: Short Stories by R.L. Maizes
In We Love Anderson Cooper, characters are treated as outsiders because of their sexual orientation, racial or religious identity, or simply because they look different. A young man courts the publicity that comes from...
L’Chaim and Lamentations by Craig Darch
L’Chaim and Lamentations is a collection of seven richly layered stories that tackle not only the question of what it means to be Jewish but also what it means to be human, exploring universal...
Haunting Paris by Mamta Chaudhry
In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Sylvie mourns the loss of her lover, Julien, and is unable to find solace in...
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between
by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, Mark Oppenheimer Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covers culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more....
Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a...
