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Single Handed by Daniel M. Cohen

Single Handed by Daniel M. Cohen

The Inspiring True Story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin–Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient Hardcover From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this...

New Podcast Episode: Viva, Rose

The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin, features an interview with Susan Krawitz about her middle grade novel Viva, Rose, based on her own family’s history...

Becoming Malka by Mirta Trupp

Becoming Malka by Mirta Trupp

In pursuit of her Master’s degree in Imperial Russian History, 24 year-old Molly Abramovitz is heading to Moscow for a week long seminar. Never one to miss an opportunity for genealogical research; methodical and...

The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner

The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little...

Tasa's Song by Linda Kass

Tasa’s Song by Linda Kass

An extraordinary novel inspired by true events. 1943. Tasa Rosinski and five relatives, all Jewish, escape their rural village in eastern Poland―avoiding certain death―and find refuge in a bunker beneath a barn built by...

The Dead Man by Nora Gold

The Dead Man by Nora Gold

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Women’s Studies. THE DEAD MAN is a compelling novel about a woman who is obsessed. Eve, who is both a composer of sacred music and a music therapist, is well aware...

The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler

This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last. Estranged from her family...