Now You Are a Missing Person by Susan Hayden
Three devastating losses are at the heart of Susan Hayden’s lyrical memoir, Now You Are a Missing Person. The suddenness of each of these deaths ― her father, her childhood best friend and her...
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Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil
A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life How do we relate to—and hold—our family’s past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art,...
As Figs in Autumn: One Year in a Forever War by Ben Bastomski
In his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen of the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver...
Sleeping as Fast as I Can by Richard Michelson
With the rise of anti-Semitism, extremism, political polarization, mass shootings, the fraying of Black-Jewish-Asian alliances, and the loss of personal connections during the age of Covid, where is God, and how can we find...
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair by Rosa Lowinger
Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen – immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the minutes people wait in an airport, and,...
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep....
How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book by Liel Leibovitz
A witty and wide-ranging exploration of a book that has perplexed and delighted people for centuries: the Talmud. For numerous centuries, the Talmud―an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition―has compelled readers to...
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp by Rachel Meller
Uncovering a Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime Shanghai Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth...
Tears of History by Pierre Birnbaum
The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States Translator: Karen Santos Da Silva For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has...
Daughters of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders
A Novel of WWII Inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women. On one extraordinary day...
