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The For­got­ten Singer by Mau­rice Carr

The For­got­ten Singer by Mau­rice Carr

The Exiled Sis­ter of I.J. and Isaac Bashe­vis Singer The Forgotten Singer, published in English for the first time tells the story of the author’s mother, Esther Singer Kreitman, a literary genius who was...

The Mon­ey Kings by Daniel Schul­man

The Mon­ey Kings by Daniel Schul­man

The Epic Sto­ry of the Jew­ish Immi­grants Who Trans­formed Wall Street and Shaped Mod­ern America The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names...

A Mirror of the Jewish Religion by Jonathan Adams (Editor)

A Mirror of the Jewish Religion by Jonathan Adams (Editor)

A Critical Edition and Translation of Christian Petter Löwe’s “Speculum Religionis Judaicæ” (1732) (Religious Minorities in the North) In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror...

Our Philoso­pher by Gert Hof­mann

Our Philoso­pher by Gert Hof­mann

A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an...

Abigail's Song by Alina Rubin

Abigail’s Song by Alina Rubin

Hearts and Harmony Book 1 When your world is out of tune, can music heal you? Cast out from her home after her mother’s death, orphan Abigail Jones wanders around her English town on...