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Scattered Among The Nations by Bryan Schwartz

Scattered Among The Nations by Bryan Schwartz

With vibrant photographs and intricate stories Scattered Among the Nations tells the story of the world’s most isolated Jewish communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union and the margins of Europe....

Sydney Taylor Book Awards

2016 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Winners

From the The Association of Jewish Libraries The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers: Ketzel, the Cat who Composed by Lesléa Newman with illustrations by Amy June Bates (Candlewick Press) The Sydney...

Bream Gives Me Hiccups

From Tablet Magazine Jesse Eisenberg talks about Woody Allen, Obama’s tailor, Jewish humor, and his new collection of funny short stories By Tal Kra-Oz I’m writing in a tradition of, frankly, mostly Jewish writers....

The Yid by Paul Goldberg

The Yid by Paul Goldberg

Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin’s death, his final pogrom, “one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin,” is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the...

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit

Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Łania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor,...