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Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager

Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager

A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their...

Tarnished Streets of Gold by Lissa Brown

Tarnished Streets of Gold by Lissa Brown

Share Chana Berkowitz’s tumultuous odyssey from Gomel, Russia to America in the early twentieth century. Like many Russian Jews who were forced from their ancestral homes by pogroms and other expressions of antisemitism, Chana...

Rachel Friedman Breaks the Rules by Sarah Kapit

Rachel Friedman Breaks the Rules by Sarah Kapit

Illustrator: Genevieve Kote Introducing a charming chapter book series starring Rachel Friedman, a sweet and silly Jewish girl renowned for her peanut butter challah baking skills and larger-than-life personality! Rachel loves being Jewish, but...

Days of Wonder by Car­o­line Leavitt

Days of Wonder by Car­o­line Leavitt

New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt returns with a tantalizing, courageous story about mothers and daughters, guilt and innocence, and the lengths we go for love. As a teenager, for a moment, Ella...

Dear Mutzi by Tess Scholfield-Peters

Dear Mutzi by Tess Scholfield-Peters

A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten Harry Peters — formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled...