Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
An epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging ’60s, in another riveting historical novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred...
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But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Sandra Smith (Translator) Judith Perrignon (Contributor) A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition...
The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: Volume 3: From Nahal Iron to Nahal Shechem
by Adam Zertal, Nivi Mirkam, Shay Bar The volume presents the results of a detailed survey of north-western Samaria in Israel/Palestine. It is the third volume of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey publications. This...
Shmulik Paints the Town by Lisa Rose
Illustration by Catalina Echeverri Israeli Independence Day is coming up, and the mayor is planning a celebration. He asks Shmulik the painter to make a mural in the park, and Shmulik agrees. But he...
Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy by Sergio Luzzatto
Frederika Randall, translator No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at...
My Dear Otto by Saul Stier
My Dear Otto is the unique narrative of Kurt Glick, a mentally handicapped Jewish boy and his traumatic life during the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and the rise of ODESSA. Being sterilized...
Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene’s life hasn’t quite turned out as planned. She’s a single mom living with her daughter and her gay friend, Ahmad. Her PhD on Dante’s Vita Nuova...
Surviving Hitler: The Unlikely True Story of an SS Soldier and a Jewish Woman by O. Hakan Palm
Gustav Palm kept his secret for more than forty years. He’d been a young man when Hitler invaded his native Norway. After being forced to guard a Nazi prison camp, however, Gustav took his...
Catalogues and Critical Scholarship
From Tablet Magazine: The Fate of Jewish Collections in 19th-Century Germany Tracing the birth of ‘Jewish studies’ as we know it By Ismar Schorsch Archives tend to put people to sleep. They seem about...
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author by Herman Wouk
In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old. Many years ago, the...
