The Yid by Paul Goldberg
Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin’s death, his final pogrom, “one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin,” is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the...
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Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by...
My Train to Freedom by Ivan A. Backer
The breathtaking memoir by a member of “Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements...
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman
Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy streets of East London in search of a better life. But Abe’s visions of a privileged apprenticeship in the Sassaporta Brothers’ empire are...
The National Jewish Book Awards have been announced
Here is the list of winners. For finalists and further details check this page at the Jewish Book Council Jewish Book of the Year Everett Family Foundation Award Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle For Israel,...
Repercussions by Anthony Schneider
Henry Wegland, a former African National Congress activist now living in New York with his son, Glenn, and his daughter-in-law encourages his grandson, Saul, to travel to South Africa and make a documentary about...
Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy by Sergio Luzzatto
Frederika Randall, translator No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at...
White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between by Judy Batalion
Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras,...
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 by Hillel Cohen
What inspires someone to wake up one day and kill their neighbor? How do communities internalize and remember periods of intense violence and hatred? How do those memories shape our identities and relationships going...
Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Every Day Leadership by Erica Brown
Take Your Soul to Work is intended as a series of self-contained essays, each of which challenges leaders—whether professional or volunteer—to examine an important value of their occupation. Each essay contains either a story...
