Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Today, she hates him. It’s the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even...
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Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South by Sue Eisenfeld
Sue Eisenfeld is a Yankee by birth, a Virginian by choice, an urbanite who came to love the rural South, a Civil War buff, and a nonobservant Jewish woman. In Wandering Dixie, she travels to nine...
The Drive by Yair Assulin
Translator: Jessica Cohen This searing novel tells the journey of a young Israeli soldier at the breaking point, unable to continue carrying out his military service, yet terrified of the consequences of leaving the...
Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination by David E. Lowe
Morris B. Abram (1918–2000) emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil rights lawyers in the United States during the 1950s. While unmasking the Ku...
Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes by Andras Koerner
András Koerner refuses to accept that the vanished world of preShoah Hungarian Jewry and its cuisine should disappear virtually without a trace and feels compelled to reconstruct its culinary culture. His book presents eating...
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force–irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety,...
My Sister Is Sleeping by Devora Busheri
Illustrator: Michel KichkaTranslator: Shira Atik A big sister in an Israeli family draws pictures as she eagerly anticipates her baby sister waking from her nap. She lovingly describes the baby, imagining all the things...
The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong
Translator: Kristen Gehrman When Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years...
The Escape Artist by Helen Fremont
In the tradition of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their...
To the Moon on a Plastic Bottle: The Story Behind Israel’s Start-Up Babies by Dan Raviv and Linor Bar-El
Translator: Jessica Setbon To the Moon on a Plastic Bottle reveals the secrets behind the entrepreneurship craze of Israel’s young generation, the engine that’s leading the innovation train. Readers go behind the scenes of...
