White Matter by Janet Sternburg
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the heart-rending and engrossing story of a close-knit Jewish family of five sisters who had to make some devastating medical decisions in order to keep...
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Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination by Holli Levitsky & Phil Brown
This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new and existing...
Black Earth by Timothy Snyder
“Indispensable” is an overused term in book reviews, but Timothy Snyder’s analysis of the political, social, intellectual, and historical circumstances that gave rise to and even nourished Hitler’s brilliant madness is truly that. The...
The Salt Mine: The Trail of Nazi Blood Money by Patrick Nolan Clark
OSS intelligence officer Tom O’Brien becomes obsessed in the search for a French war criminal who’d tortured his friend, a French agent working behind the German lines. Parachuted into southern France to search for...
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott
Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that’s based on a true story....
How’s Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey by David Gregory
Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life’s most important questions: who do we want to...
Forever Torn by Jason Greenfield
Forever Torn is the true and amazing story of two brothers and three generations of one family – a family torn apart by deaths, poverty, deceit and a promise made by a small boy...
When God is Near: On the High Holidays by Yehuda Amital
For decades, thousands from around the world gathered to join Rabbi Yehuda Amital zt”l as he led the High Holiday prayers at Yeshivat Har Etzion. Right before the most critical points in the services,...
High Holiday Porn: A Memoir by Eytan Bayme
Imagine a cross between Chelsea Handler and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer… but it’s all true. High Holiday Porn is the story of an Orthodox boy in the Bronx who discovers masturbation during Passover...
Days of Awe by Lauren Fox
Only a year ago, Isabel Moore was married, the object of adoration of her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short...
