The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger
Early in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their...
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Purim in Words and Pictures: A Holiday Coloring Book
by Sarah Mazor (Author), Marscheila Christyani (Illustrator) “Purim in Words and Pictures” recounts in detail the extraordinary story of the miraculous reversal of fortune of Persian Jewry in the days of Xerxes I, the...
Magical World: Stories, Reflections, Poems by Rabbi Sara Brandes
Magical World is a collection of inspirational poems and reflections, interwoven with the personal story of a mystic. Join Rabbi Sara Brandes as she draws from the ancient wisdom of Jewish tradition to craft...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and...
Kafka’s Cats by Gábor T. Szántó
From Tablet Magazine An excerpt from a new Hungarian novel imagines a world in which the Prague master survives tuberculosis, gives up writing, and finally finds some peace By Gábor T. Szántó In Berlin...
The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born, minutes apart. The mothers are sisters by marriage: dutiful, quiet Rose, who wants nothing more than to please...
In His Image: The Image of God in Man by Yuval Cherlow
At a time when religion is distorted to crush, belittle, and negate Man, when personal responsibility is replaced by passive faith, and human endeavor is deemed unworthy, In His Image seeks to reinstate one...
Kafka’s Son by Curt Leviant
From the award-winning author of The Yemenite Girl comes an enigmatic novel about identity and personal reinvention. Kafka’s Son is both a moving tribute to Franz Kafka and a story of fate and miracles,...
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” by Tahneer Oksman
Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the...
Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side by Lyla Blake Ward
In Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye—Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side, Lyla Blake Ward, author of How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying, tells it like it was growing up...
