The Edelweiss Pirates by Jennifer Elvgren
Illustrator: Daniela Stamatiadi In Germany in 1938, playing and dancing to jazz music is forbidden. The Hitler Youth patrol the night streets looking for anyone who breaks the rules. Albert is a member of...
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Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses
An insider’s account of Romania’s emergence from communism control In the 1970s American attorney Alfred H. Moses was approached on the streets of Bucharest by young Jews seeking help to emigrate to Israel. This...
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three...
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank by Nancy Churnin
Illustrator: Yevgenia Nayberg Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in...
A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar M. Pinsker
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture. Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is...
A Spy in Exile by Jonathan de Shalit
From the author of the internationally bestselling “supremely effective, cunningly crafted” (The Providence Journal) thriller Traitor, a cerebral and suspenseful novel of high-stakes intrigue in Israel’s top intelligence agency. After Ya’ara Stein is forced...
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century by Matilda Rabinowitz
Illustrator: Robbin Légère Henderson Matilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the...
kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic...
All About Anne by The Anne Frank House
Illustrator Huck Scarry Anne Frank’s life story is told by answering the most frequently asked questions posed by young people visiting the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. Text, detailed photographs and beautiful illustrations...
My Real Name is Hanna by Tara Lynn Masih
Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler’s army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Soon, the Gestapo closes in, determined to make the shtetele she lives in “free of Jews.” Until...
