New Jewish Books
Chicago, August 1968: a hot town. The Democrats are gathered for their national convention to nominate a candidate for President. Thousands of young people are in the streets to protest America’s involvement in the...
A Cold Case Investigation Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept… Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved...
Helping students navigate a full range of texts, concepts and debates, this is a comprehensive introduction to the vast and emotionally charged field of Holocaust Literature from 1933 to the present. Holocaust Literature: An...
Illustrator: Valentina Toro I suspect many people are like me: I read Anne Frank’s diary and familiar with its role in educating people around the world about the Holocaust but didn’t recall Miep Gies’...
Illustrator: Yevgenia Nayberg Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in...
Illustrator: Elizabeth Baddeley When Mouschi the cat goes with his boy, Peter, to a secret annex, he meets a girl named Anne. Bright, kind and loving, Anne dreams of freedom and of becoming a...
Ari Folman, adaptation; David Polonsky, illustration A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the...
When she turned thirteen years old, Anne received a gift that would change her life: a personal diary. In it, she expressed her desires, fears and hopes while living in confinement with her family...
In most windows I saw people working and children playing. When the soldiers came, people began covering their windows, so I couldn’t see inside anymore. But the tiny attic window of the narrow brick...
