Auschwitz – A Mother’s Story by Rosa de Winter-Levy
How I fought to survive and see my daughter again Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. ‘My child, I have to go with her!’ I scream....
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Faces of Israel by Larry Roberts
This book of photographs incorporates images, taken between 1980 and 2015, from all of Israel’s diverse communities, depicting people living their daily lives. These photographs of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and tourists, of the...
Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel by Piotr Smolar
Translator: Anthony Roberts Combining memoir, history, and political essay, an acclaimed French journalist delves into his family’s past in this searing, nuanced investigation of Jewish identity and what it means in the diaspora versus...
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de...
Uri and the King of Darkness: A Hanukkah Story by Nati Bait
Illustrator: Carmel Ben AmiTranslator: Ilana Kurshan It’s the first night of Hanukkah and Uri’s dad is still not home. “What happened to Dad? Is he caught in the fray? Could it be that an...
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller
A vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—that “has the ring of truth and...
Funny folk fable with a feminist twist
Thoughts on “The Council of Wise Women” (The Village Life) by Izzy Abrahmson It made me laugh, it made me sad because of missed opportunities, and it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside....
The Einstein Effect by Benyamin Cohen
How the World’s Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds A fascinating look into how Einstein’s genius and science continues to show up in so many facets of our everyday...
The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic by Gila Fine
Rereading the Women of the Talmud Women in the Talmud are generally marginal and almost always anonymous – the daughters, sisters, and wives of prominent rabbis. The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic explores the...
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and...
