Five Stories by Ellen Weinstein
Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a...
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Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity by Roni Weinstein
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Something crucial and quite unprecedented happened to kabbalah in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Though it had previously been considered a highly secretive and esoteric tradition, its practitioners...
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra’s ever loved, every place they’ve felt queer...
Ping-Pong Shabbat by Ann D. Koffsky
The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman Illustrator: Abigail Rajunov POP POP KERPOW!Eleven-year-old Ping-Pong phenom Estee Ackerman must make a difficult choice. When her championship match is scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath, will she...
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine by Professor Oren Kroll-Zeldin
Examines how young Jewish Americans’ fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge...
The Triumph of Life by Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
A Narrative Theology of Judaism The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s magnum opus—a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the...
An Etrog from Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry Olitzky
Illustrator: Stacey Dressen McQueen Papa has promised to bring home a perfect etrog for Sukkot from his journey across the sea. Rachel and Abe go to the docks every day to wait for his...
Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera by Ricky Ian Gordon
The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of “a life that comes out of chaos.” At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his...
Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology by Miri Freud-Kandel
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization For Louis Jacobs, the quest―the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith―was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by...
Evitchka: A True Story of Survival, Hope and Love by Lawrence P. Levitt, Stephanie Smartschan
Before World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenné, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to...
