Oscar’s Hanukkah: A Poetic Tale by Ron Isaacs
The octopus is one of God’s most amazing creations. It is an exceptional creature with unusual abilities. It can taste food with its arms, change colors, solve puzzles with its nine brains and both...
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The Box with the Sunflower Clasp by Rachel Meller
Uncovering a Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime Shanghai Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth...
The Reeducation of Race by Sonali Thakkar
Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated...
Denying History by Michæl Shermer, Alex Grobman
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Foreword: Arthur Hertzberg Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the...
The Extraordinary Dreidel by Devorah Omer
Illustrator: Aviel Basil “On Hanukkah, Uncle Haim the carpenter made Gil and Nurit a wooden dreidel. This was no ordinary dreidel.” It is Hanukkah, and brother and sister Gil and Nurit have just been...
Tears of History by Pierre Birnbaum
The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States Translator: Karen Santos Da Silva For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has...
The Schlimazel of Sebreim by Richard Elfman
A vampire’s tale of love, lust, revenge and redemption. Schlimazel has been bullied his whole life by the coarse and prejudiced peasants of Sebreim, and it doesn’t help when he falls in love with...
Daughters of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders
A Novel of WWII Inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women. On one extraordinary day...
Counting Lost Stars by Kim van Alkemade
New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8, Kim van Alkemade returns with a gripping and poignant historical saga in which an unmarried college student who’s given up her baby for adoption helps a...
The Cost of Free Land by Rebecca Clarren
Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors’ land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States...
