Ben and the Bishop by Judith Weinshall Liberman
Ilustrated by Gail Davis BEN AND THE BISHOP tells a story about a Jewish boy named Ben who lives in the German town of Speyer during the eleventh century, at the time of the...
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When We Were Shadows by Janet Wees
Walter is a young child when his parents decide to leave their home in Germany and start a new life in the Netherlands. As Jews, they know they are not safe under the Nazi...
Hand in Hand by Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum
Illustrator: Maya Shleifer Separated from her family, Ruthi struggles to find hope in this universal story of loss and love, by holding tight to a childhood promise.
The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel
When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and...
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam
Translators: Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane Foreword: David I. Kertzer In this gripping revisionist history of Italy’s role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated...
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller
Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp...
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she...
In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea by Michael Brenner
Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel’s founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born...
The Way Back by Jonnie Schnytzer
David, an Israeli vigilante, is forced to flee to Cairo, leaving behind him a trail of blood. Limor, an Ex-Mossad operative with plenty of chutzpah, will stop at nothing to bring down the most...
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
When Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his...
