At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Tara Ison
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small...
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The Enemy Beside Me by Naomi Ragen
Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen’s The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about two people fighting for reconciliation over unforgivable crimes of the past. Taking over from her father and grandfather...
Eve and Adam and Their Very First Day by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Irina Avgustinovich In this unusual retelling, the biblical story of creation is told from Eve’s perspective and explores what it might have been like emotionally for the world’s first two people to experience...
Hour of Need by Ralph Shayne
The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II: A Graphic Novel Illustrator: Tatiana Goldberg Hour of Need is a graphic novel telling the true story of the Nazi Resistance in Denmark...
Bessie by Linda Kass
Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship....
Below Zero by Carol V. Davis
In Below Zero, her fourth poetry collection, Carol V. Davis explores Siberia, an area in Russia largely unknown to Americans. Flying into Ulan-Ude, capital of Buryatia Republic, where she had never been, she mutters...
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter by Rachel Shteir
Jewish Lives A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was...
We Are Not Strangers by Josh Tuininga
Introduction by award-winning author Ken Mochizuki Afterword by Devin Naar, author of Jewish Salonica Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japanese neighbors while they...
Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz
Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance. Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation—fourteen years ago at summer camp—ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated...
