The Lie by Hesh Kestin
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools – or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending...
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The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales by Shoshanna Boyd Gelfand; Amanda Hall, illus.; Debra Messing, narrator
Thoughtfully chosen and cheerfully retold, this gathering of eight Jewish stories is sure to delight listeners and readers. Rabbi Boyd Gelfand offers a fresh take on some old favorites to share the beauty and...
Diary 1954 by Leopold Tyrmand
Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland’s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating...
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama – part play, part prose, pure poetry – to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins...
You Should Have Known Book Giveaway
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees...
City of the Sun by Juliana Maio
Cairo, Egypt 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as ”Paris on the Nile” plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than...
A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
A graduate of Berkeley’s program in environmental economics and policy, Joshua Fattal is an activist and organizer focused on sustainable development. Along with co-authors Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, he has spoken at universities,...
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
In this cultural history – the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series “The Story of the Jews” – Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia,...
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul by Daniel Gordis
Menachem Begin—maker of peace with Egypt, Nobel Prize winner, welcomer of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel—was shunned by David Ben-Gurion and renounced as a terrorist. In this sympathetic biography, Daniel Gordis, a prominent American-Israeli...
Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman
Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political...
