You Are Allowed by Odelia Elgarat
A Story of Finding Where You Belong, Not Where You Began Esther, a young woman living in a kibbutz in the south of Israel, undertakes a journey to find her biological mother who abandoned...
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My Hijacking by Martha Hodes
A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back...
Fifty-seven Fridays Myra L. Sack
Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way Foreword: Joanne Cacciatore Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative...
The Right to Happiness by Helen Schary Motro
After all they went through. Stories New Jewish Fiction Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century. In eleven compelling stories inheritors...
Klara’s Truth by Susan Weissbach Friedman
It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged...
Jackpot Summer by Elyssa Friedland
After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy lives will transform into sleek, storybook perfection–but they couldn’t be more wrong. The four Jacobson children were raised to...
The Jewish Cookbook by Juan Barake, Jose Barrera, Joshua Levy
35 Recipes for Kosher Cooking Mastery. From Israeli Feasts to Holiday Delights: Israeli food Jewish cookbook Jewish cooking … eastern cookbook Recipes for Jewish holidays Embark on a culinary adventure with “The Jewish Cookbook...
One More Miracle: The Memoirs of Morris Sorid
A young Jewish Pole and his wife plot their escape from the ghetto of Pruzhany, Poland to join a group of underground Partisan fighters as the Nazis cleanse their town of Jews. A story...
The Curators by Maggie Nye
Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates A dark, lyrical blend of historical fiction and magical realism, The Curators examines a critically underexplored event in American history...
The Way of Humanity According to Chasidic Teaching by Martin Buber
Translators: Bernard H. Mehlman and Gabriel E. Padawer Martin Buber (1878-1965) was one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. A philosopher, seeker, and nurturer of dialogue, he responded to the...
