Things That Shimmer by Deborah Lakritz
In the spring of 1973, Melanie Adler desperately wants to be accepted by the Shimmers, the popular kids in her class. But the secret of her mother’s PTSD stands in the way. As hard...
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When There Was Light by Carlie Hoffman
While Hoffman’s debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection When There Was Light looks at the past for what it was.These poems map...
Frayed: The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists by Yair Ettinger
Religious Zionists are an increasingly influential part of Israeli society, and their influence is felt across the societal spectrum. They are a significant force in almost every sector of Israel, including the media and...
Victory Parade by Leela Corman
The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and...
The Jewish Holiday Table by Naama Shefi
A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long For many Jews, the meal is the holiday Collected by the Jewish Food Society, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish cuisine around the world,...
I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Brad Meltzer
Illustrator: Christopher Eliopoulos Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the 32nd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 9. Before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was...
Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life by Shai Held
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is...
Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual scene In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in...
The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories by Matt Reingold
The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories tells the story of how cartoonist Asaf Hanuka illustrates both universal and particular narratives. Through close readings of Hanuka’s entire catalogue of comics and...
The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Political Imagination) by Shaul Magid
A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to...
