Daughters of Jerusalem by Galya Gerstman
Daughters of Jerusalem is a saga of three generations of extraordinary Jewish women. Lili Ventura immigrates to the Holy Land in 1903 to fulfill a promise to God, and reinvents herself as a midwife,...
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Who Are the Jews―And Who Can We Become? by Donniel Hartman
Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become? tackles perhaps the most urgent question facing the Jewish people today: Given unprecedented denominational tribalism, how can we Jews speak of ourselves in collective terms?Crucially, the...
An Economy of Strangers: Jews and Finance in England, 1650-1830 by Avinoam Yuval-Naeh
Jewish Culture and Contexts One of the most persistent, powerful, and dangerous notions in the history of the Jews in the diaspora is the prodigious talent attributed to them in all things economic. From...
The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
Two female spies risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi in this sweeping, profound tale of bravery from the bestselling author of Lilac Girls. American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are thrilled...
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World by Sharon Brous
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons. In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and...
Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History by Claire Sarnowski with Sarah Durand
The inspiring true story about how a modern teen girl and her Holocaust-survivor friend fought against hate to create change. In 2018, fourteen-year-old Claire Sarnowski stood with ninety-two-year-old Alter Wiener in front of the...
Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style by Bethan Bide, Lucie Whitmore
Discover the extraordinary stories of the Jewish people who designed, made and sold fashion in twentieth-century London, revealing their vital role in making it an iconic fashion city. While Jewish people have long been...
West Jerusalem Noir by Maayan Eitan
In West Jerusalem Noir—published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir—the Akashic Noir Series visits one of the world’s most complex locales, in this volume from the perspective of Israeli writers From the editor’s introduction:“This anthology...
Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers by Diane Catherine Vecchio
How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina A new perspective on Jewish history in the South Diane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in Upcountry...
Nobody Lives Here: A Jewish Childhood in the Occupied Netherlands by Lex Lesgever
Translators: Babette Lichtenstein, Jozef van der Voort ‘I was on the street and I was free – but what now?’ This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself...
