Elsa’s Chessboard by Jenny Andrus
Illustrator: Julie Downing Elsa carries her chessboard everywhere, always ready for a game. When World War II forces her from Europe, can chess help make America home? Growing up in 1900s Vienna, Elsa’s brothers...
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Interrupted Lives by Amanda Friedeman, Kelley Szany
Nine Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust In some ways, Adele, Barney, Eric, Ernie, Frank, Judy, Magda, Rodi, and Ruth had little in common. They were born in different European countries and came...
Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Challenge for Israel by Efraim Karsh, Efrat Aviv (Editors)
It has been one of Zionism’s foremost credos that so long as Jews continued their millenarian dispersal as small minorities in countless countries around the globe, antisemitism would remain unabated. Only by reinstating the...
In Eve’s Attire: Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body by Delphine Horvilleur
Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred? How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted? Does sexual obsession have a textual...
Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell
This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem...
Mendel the Mess-Up by Terry LaBan
Cursed from birth, Mendel Schlotz is the unluckiest kid in his village.He’s also the only one who can save it. Ask anyone—twelve-year-old Mendel can’t do anything right. When he tries to herd goats, they...
The Rise of Talmud by Moulie Vidas
The Bible and the Humanities The rabbinic sages of antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture. But beginning in the third century CE, these sages also took on extensive commentary...
The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden
From the bestselling author of Born Survivors, a novel inspired by the powerful true story of a man who risked everything to protect children in Auschwitz. Fredy built a wall against suffering in their...
The Eagle’s Shadow by Michael Reit
March 1938, Vienna, Austria Without a single shot fired, Hitler seizes Austria. In the Jewish district of Leopoldstadt, Felix Wolff watches his beloved city transform into a nightmare. As people are rounded up and...
Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments by Wendy A. Horwitz
In Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments, Wendy A. Horwitz shares stories about celebration, loss, change, and the best way to open a pomegranate. Holidays delight – and disappoint. A couple...
