4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward...
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California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & The Papas by Pénélope Bagieu
Nanette McGuinness, translator California Dreamin’ from Pénélope Bagieu depicts Mama Cass as you’ve never known her, in this poignant graphic novel about the remarkable vocalist who rocketed The Mamas & the Papas to stardom....
Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America by Rachel Kranson
This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews...
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber
In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the...
If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Nava Kurshan
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world’s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for “daily page” of the Talmud, a...
The Book of Separation: A Memoir by Tova Mirvis
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and...
Yitzi and the Giant Menorah by Richard Ungar
On the eve of Hanukkah, the People of Chelm have received a special gift from the Mayor of Lublin. A giant menorah in which they place in the square for all the admire. Every...
Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art by Barb Rosenstock
Mary GrandPré, illustrator Through the window, the student sees . . . His future–butcher, baker, blacksmith, but turns away. A classmate sketching a face from a book. His mind blossoms. The power of pictures....
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 by Philip Roth
Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath’s Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986),...
Roller-Coaster Grandma: The Amazing Story of Dr. Ruth by Ruth K. Westheimer
Mark Simmons, illustrator; Ann D. Koffsky, editor This graphic novel-style autobiography for ages 8-12 depicts the ups and downs of Dr. Ruth’s life from her escape from the Nazis at age 10 aboard a...
