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Ecclesiastes (in Hebrew, Kohelet) has long been viewed as the great existential work of the Hebrew Bible, containing the famous cry “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” As part of a search for enduring...
Illustrator: Galia Bernstein From Lisa Greenwald, the beloved author of the TBH and Friendship List series, comes a new series about a girl trying to save her family’s deli. Ellie’s family owns the town...
Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely and suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing...
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular...
Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America’s criminal justice system. With...
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl’s struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister,...
He who turns his ear away from hearing the Torah – even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28-9 Melbourne 1999- Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their...
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us...
Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family In Two Roads Home beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and...
Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away. The wounds of her past haven’t fully healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art...