The Creation Book by Chani Gansburg
The sky up high, the land and sea, a brand new world for you and me. Crisp writing and extraordinary illustration combine in this unique picture book about the Creation of the world. The...
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Inappropriation by Lexi Freiman
Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls’ school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade’s most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning...
God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin by Adah Nuchi
Illustrator: Rob Polivka Persecuted as Jews, Izzy Baline and his family emigrated from Russia to New York, where he fell in love with his new country. He heard music everywhere and was full to...
Deviation by Luce D’Eramo
Translator: Anne Milano Appel First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D’Eramo’s Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation...
Journeys: An American Story by Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas
Every family has a story of how they arrived in America, whether it was a few months, years, decades, or centuries ago. Journeys: An American Story celebrates the vastness and variety of immigration tales...
Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library by Joshua Teplitsky
David Oppenheim (1664–1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at...
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon
Translators: Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands back...
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s by Marc Dollinger
Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how,...
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...
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...
