Our Little Histories by Janice Weizman
In an impoverished village in the White Russia, Raizel Shulman needs to find a way to save her three young sons from being drafted into the Czar’s army. Before splitting them up forever, she...
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Unorthodox Love by Heidi Shertok
Perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood and Sophie Kinsella, Heidi Shertok’s delightful debut about love and family will tug on your heartstrings. Twenty-nine-year-old Penina longs for true love and marriage, but being infertile in...
Building a City by Sheila E. Jelen, Jeffrey Saks, Wendy Zierler (Editors)
Writings on Agnon’s Buczacz in Memory of Alan Mintz The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz,...
Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century by Jindrich Toman
Texts, Contexts, Reassessments Bohemian Jewish culture and literature during the underexamined 1820s to 1880s. This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period...
Untethered by Ruth Rakoff
During a teenage adventure abroad, twins Petal and Rose find their lives diverging in ways they could not have imagined, highlighting the complexities of their relationship and a shrouded family history. Free-spirited Rose becomes...
All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace On the...
First Light by Marc H. Ellis
Encountering Edward Said and the Late-Style Jewish Prophetic in the New Diaspora Designer: Alicia Beebe Encountering Edward Said on Yom Kippur: Reflections on the Late-Style Jewish Prophetic is a fascinating and controversial collection of...
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust by David Joseph
When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to...
The Circlemaker by Maxine Rose Schur
Illustrator: Polina Solomodenko “Only the closed circle, Mendel, has power, because the closed circle can keep us whole.”When Mendel’s father imparts these words to him, the boy does not at first grasp their full...
The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella
Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother’s grief, and his father’s violent...
