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Israel’s Black Pan­thers by Asaf Elia-Shalev

Israel’s Black Pan­thers by Asaf Elia-Shalev

The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan...

As the Dust of the Earth by Harriet Murav

As the Dust of the Earth by Harriet Murav

The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine Jews of Eastern Europe An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the...

Ain't No Grave by Mary Glickman

Ain’t No Grave by Mary Glickman

From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South. “A...

Lotus Girl by Helen Tworkov

Lotus Girl by Helen Tworkov

My Life at the Cross­roads of Bud­dhism and America From one of the central figures in Buddhism’s introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one’s...

Teaching a Dark Chapter by Daniela R. P. Weiner

Teaching a Dark Chapter by Daniela R. P. Weiner

History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths...

Every Wrin­kle Has a Story by David Gross­man

Every Wrin­kle Has a Story by David Gross­man

Illustrator: Nina­masi­naTranslator: Jes­si­ca Cohen Every Tuesday, Yotam’s grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: “Grandpa, what’s...