Live Your Dream: The Story of a Jewish Basketball All-Star by Tamir Goodman
This picture book shares the story of dyslexic Jewish basketball star Tamir Goodman’s successes as player and coach.
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Small Talk by Jeffrey Schwartz
This is a book of elegies, meditations, and dreams. It’s a book about connections and disruptions. It’s a book about time, how quickly it slips through our fingers and how it never ends. In...
Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity by David Mazower
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture—its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics—from...
Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction by Ross Brann
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his...
Behind the Trigger by Yariv Inbar
A Psychological Spy Novel About Two Women on Opposite Sides of Deception Translated by Dalit Shmueli What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past? Set deep...
The Peddler and the President by Ann D. Koffsky
Illustrated by Pedro Rodríguez The true story of the lifelong friendship between President Harry Truman and salesman Eddie Jacobson and its impact on the founding of Israel. This 48-page early chapter book biography for...
Zaidy’s Band: The Untold Stories of a Jewish Band of Brothers in World War II by Aron Heller
In Zaidy’s Band, Aron Heller chronicles his extensive journey with his grandfather Mickey Heller — his Zaidy — to uncover Mickey’s mysterious wartime past and the untold stories of his Jewish Canadian band of...
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman
Both a love letter to America and a stirring rallying cry for the country to live up to the ideals on which it was founded, this propulsive biography from National Book Award Finalist and...
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire by Barry Strauss
A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss. Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of...
Late Blossoms by Merav Fima
Ten women.All of them migrants.All of them artists.A singular location: Jerusalem. Anna Ticho is a seasoned Viennese hostess who longs to start painting again, though the desolation of Jerusalem offers little inspiration. Even though...
