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...
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Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...
Inseparable: A Holocaust Survival Story by Faris Cassell
See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children. Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a...
Opening Doors by Hasia R. Diner
The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various...
Irena’s Gift by Karen Kirsten
Irena’s Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival by Karen Kirsten Weaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give...
Millennial Jewish Stars by Jonathan Branfman
Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences....
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...
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...
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...
The Threshold of Dissent by Marjorie N. Feld
A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for...
