The Rabbi Slurps Spaghetti by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Sharon Davey Someday, Lena hopes to be a world-famous detective. But in the meantime, she s working on The Case of the Mysterious Rabbi! It s a tricky one. The rabbi seems to...
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Hollywood’s Eve by Lili Anolik
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of...
Searching for Lottie by Susan Ross
A long-lost cousin, a mysterious locket, a visit to Nana Rose in Florida, a diary written in German, and a very special violin all lead twelve-year-old Charlie to the truth about her great-aunt Lottie...
A Room Away From the Wolves Nova by Ren Suma
Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina’s cruel father and start over. But before they...
A Year with Mordecai Kaplan: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion by Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
You are invited to spend a year with the inspirational words, ideas, and counsel of the great twentieth-century thinker Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, through his meditations on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and eleven Jewish...
Greenhorns: Stories by Richard Slotkin
The people of Greenhorns reflect the different ways Jewish immigrants took to America in the early 20th century, and how America affected them. A kosher butcher with a gambling problem. A Jewish Pygmalion. A...
Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers
The people of Greenhorns reflect the different ways Jewish immigrants took to America in the early 20th century, and how America affected them. A kosher butcher with a gambling problem. A Jewish Pygmalion. A...
The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and The American Dream by Tom Weidlinger
The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him...
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
Fantasy icon Jane Yolen (The Devil’s Arithmetic, Briar Rose, Sister Emily’s Lightship) is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and...
Immigrant City: And Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
David Bezmozgis, the writer who brought us the “pointed, emotionally resonant tales” (The Globe and Mail) of Natasha and Other Stories, brings us a new collection, his first in more than a decade. In...
