Silver Stars by Michael Grant
For fans of Girl in the Blue Coat, Salt to the Sea, and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, the second book of New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant’s epic alternate...
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The Mandela Plot by Kenneth Bonert
As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence with the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is the struggling odd duck at an elite...
Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids...
Jewish Languages in Historial Perspective
Editor: Lily Kahn Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective is devoted to the diverse array of spoken and written language varieties that have been employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first...
In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song by Jerome Charyn
In the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: “Among Charyn’s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler...
A Cage Without Bars by Anne Dublin
In 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed the Edict of Expulsion, giving all Jews three months to leave the country. In the aftermath, twelve-year-old Joseph escapes to Lisbon, Portugal with his...
Modern Conservative Judaism: Evolving Thought and Practice by Elliot N. Dorff
A major Conservative movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century. His candid observations concerning...
Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’: A Tribute to Roberto Bachmann
Editors: Claude B. Stuczynski and Bruno Feitler In Portuguese Jews, New Christians and ‘New Jews’ Claude B. Stuczynski and Bruno Feitler gather some of the leading scholars of the history of the Portuguese Jews...
Sephardic Women’s Voices: Out of North Africa by Nina B. Lichtenstein
Sephardic women’s writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in France and North Africa. These stories offer testaments of a generally excluded human experience that belongs in the...
August2018 Jewish Book Carnival
The Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, has been posted for August, hosted by The Whole Megillah blog. You can enjoy the Carnival at https://thewholemegillah.wordpress.com/, including:...
