The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan
In her debut novel, Parnaz Foroutan weaves a powerful tale of a Persian Jewish family, inspired by her own history. Its narrator, Maboubeh, is now an old woman living in Los Angeles. She claims...
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Jewish Voices in Feminism: Transnational Perspectives by Nelly Las
Ruth Morris, translator Feminist theories maintain that gender issues are a ubiquitous component of our lives, intersecting with every aspect of the society in which we live and interact. Because the feminist debate has...
A Remarkable Kindness by Diana Bletter
Through a largely hidden ceremony…four friends discover the true meaning of life. It’s 2006 in a seaside village in Israel, where a war is brewing. Lauren, Emily, Aviva and Rachel, four memorable women from...
Orphan Number Eight by Kim van Alkemade
Orphan Number Eight tells the story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish...
The Language of Paradise by Barbara Klein Moss
The microcosm encased within a glass terrarium on the book cover for The Language of Paradise evokes the poignant contradictions of the story it contains: nurtured wilderness, love and estrangement, caged Arcadia, Art, Science,...
The Sound of Our Steps by Ronit Matalon
Dalya Bilu, translator The Sound of Our Steps is an inventive novel of immigration and exile from Ronit Matalon, a major voice in contemporary Israeli fiction. In the beginning there was Lucette, who is...
The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp by James M. Deem
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . . . until the Nazis...
This Is Not a Love Story by Judy Brown
This most certainly is a love story. It’s also a coming-of-age story, a family’s story, and a story of struggling through the unknown. Judy Brown’s memoir instills her own voice and past in Menuchah....
The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South by Marione Ingram
Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, only to find when she came to the United States that racism was as pervasive in the American South as...
The Boatmaker by John Benditt
A man from a small island at the periphery of an unnamed country close to Europe builds a boat and voyages to the capital of his kingdom. There are apparently no Jews on the...
