Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
To save his family’s failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut. Ezra Friedman sees ghosts,...
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Nearly Departed by Gila Pfeffer
Adventures in Loss, Cancer and Other Inconveniences A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise By the...
Jewish Education by Ari Y Kelman
Key Words in Jewish Studies Most writing about Jewish education has been preoccupied with two questions: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? Ari Y Kelman upends...
Esfir Is Alive by Andrea Simon
A novel inspired by a true story of survival. Esfir Manevich is a young Jewish girl who lives in the Polish town of Kobrin in 1936. Facing antisemitism in public school, Esfir moves in...
Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright
An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so...
New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson
Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, Shaul Magid (Editors) The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have...
Don’t Want to Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton
Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young readers. For fans of Too Bright to See. Adam and Victor...
Ethics of the Algorithm by Todd Presner
Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony The Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and...
The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II by Michael Rosen
“They were there at the beginning of the War, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.” That’s all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the...
A Boy from Baghdad by Miriam Halahmy
“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...
