The Pinch by Steve Stern
It’s the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and...
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen
Anya recounts three Soviet-Jewish generations and their complex relationship with totalitarian power and Jewish identity. We meet her great-grandmother Maria who ran a Jewish home canteen out of her kitchen and lost her baby...
Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel follows Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he’ll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African...
The Death’s Head Chess Club by John Donoghue
SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale, so he establishes a chess club for enlisted men. Soon Meissner...
33 Days: A Memoir by Leon Werth
Austin D. Johnston, translator In June of 1940, Leon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian...
There Once Was a Man From Canaan: The Five Books of Limerick Rabbi Joe Black
Eddie Goldfine , illustrator This book by Rabbi Joe Black has a limerick for every Torah portion. As a songwriter and musician, Rabbi Black has always found limericks to be a wonderful blend of...
From Selfie to Groupie by Alina and Jeff Bliumis
From Selfie to Groupie is a book of photographs and essays exploring the variety and intricacy of Jewish-American identity by Alina and Jeff Bliumis. The pair began their visual survey in the Russian-Jewish immigrant...
The Book of Stone by Jonathan Papernick
Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who is also a disgraced judge. After his father’s death, Matthew is a young man alone. He turns to his father’s...
The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook by Fania Lewando
Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen Translator: Eve Jochnowitz Foreword: Joan Nathan The book offers an ample choice of stewed dishes, blintzes, omelets, porridges, kugels, puddings, latkes, stuffed foods, sauces, baked goods,...
On the Front Lines in a Changing Jewish World: Collected Writings, 1988-2013 by Michael C. Kotzin
The essays, opinion columns, speeches, and reviews that appear in this collection deal with a range of subjects of central concern to the American Jewish community. Offered from the perspective of one who has...
