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The Kings of Algiers by Julie Kalman

The Kings of Algiers by Julie Kalman

How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World during the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the...

The Witch of Woodland by Lau­rel Snyder

The Witch of Woodland by Lau­rel Snyder

A young girl preparing for her bat mitzvah discovers she has mysterious abilities in this magical contemporary coming-of-age story from the beloved author of Orphan Island. Hi, whoever is reading this. I’m Zipporah Chava...

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust by Jan Borowicz

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust by Jan Borowicz

Memory Studies: Global Constellations Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust...

A Brutal Design by Zachary C. Solomon

A Brutal Design by Zachary C. Solomon

After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag―or worse. Instead, he receives an...