Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his...
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The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89 by Hana Kubátová and Jan Láníček
Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Zionism The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination,1938-89 is the first critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices in both main parts of former Czechoslovakia. The authors identify anti-Jewish...
Wordwings by Sydelle Pearl
In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather’s beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories...
The Alphabet of Paradise: An A–Z of Spirituality for Everyday Life by Howard Cooper
Paradise is not some far-off distant time or place, nor is it beyond death. It is here and now ,according to Howard Cooper―one of the most eloquent new voices in spirituality. The Alphabet of...
Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story by Lesléa Newman
Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin’s address in...
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America by Kirsten Fermaglich
Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them. But as Kirsten Fermaglich...
Sadie’s Snowy Tu B’Shevat by Jamie Korngold
Julie Fortenberry, illustator Sadie wants to plant a tree for Tu B’Shevat. But it’s the middle of winter! Her parents and grandfather assure her that a tree can’t take root in the frozen ground....
Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem
One of the great masterpieces of Western religious thought, the Zohar represents an attempt to uncover hidden meanings behind the world of appearances. It is the central work in the literature of the Kabbalah,...
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by James Loeffler
The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied...
Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940 by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire
Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing...
