Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
Her name is Sarah. She’s blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets...
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When Paul Met Artie: The Story of Simon & Garfunkel by G. Neri
David Litchfield, illustrator From childhood friendship to brief teenage stardom, from early failures to musical greatness — the incredible story of how Simon & Garfunkel became a cherished voice of their generation. Long before...
The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman
Imani is adopted, and she’s ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see family in...
The Dark Young Man by Jacob Dinezon
Tina Lunson, translator; Scott Hilton Davis, editor Jacob Dinezon’s historical Jewish romance is set in the Russian Empire in the 1840s and weaves the tale of Yosef, a poor but brilliant yeshiva student, who...
Belladonna by Daša Drndić
Translated by Celia Hawkesworth Andreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. His body is failing him. He sifts through...
Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman
For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain...
We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman
You are invited to the wedding of Elizabeth Gottlieb and Hank Jackson. But the bride and groom are beside the point. Because, on this hot Atlanta afternoon, the people of the hour are the...
Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus
The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah...
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism by Shira Klein
How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews....
Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard,...
