Heart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdahl
An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming...
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Twice Born by Hester Kaplan
Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography A deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich...
What Would Philip Roth Do? by Matthew Check
Not Your Typical Boy-Meets-Girl Boy-Loses-Shiksa Story Welcome to the brain of Matt Check. Here you’ll find thoughts of bluegrass music, unrequited love, modern-day Nazis and uncircumcised penises. “Ugh, smegma,” as he likes to say....
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elizabeth R. Hyman
The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War...
The Pessimist’s Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope by Alexander Kimel, Martin Kimel
A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl in...
Agents of Change by Adam S. Ferziger
American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism The rise of moderate Orthodox Judaism in Israel and the key role of Americans in its emergence The conservative ultra-Orthodox and redemptive “Kook” camps hold sway...
Carole King: She Made the Earth Move by Jane Eisner
Jane Eisner traces the professional accomplishments and personal challenges of pop icon Carole King, exploring her unique contribution to American music Carole King’s extraordinary career has defined American popular music for more than half...
Dog by Yishay Ishi Ron
Translator: Yardenne Greenspan A Combat Officer and a Dog Find Each Other in the Shadows of Trauma and Addiction Dog is a haunting and unflinching exploration of PTSD, addiction, and redemption, told through the...
Bethlehem Road: Stories of Immigration and Exile by Judy Lev
For fans of André Aciman, Omer Friedlander, and Ayelet Tsabari, these twelve stories convey the power, magic, and pain of place—one iconic street in Jerusalem where immigrants young and old struggle to find themselves...
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck by Paul Marcus
Psychoanalysis and Religion The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck provides an overview of the life of Dr. Leo Baeck (1873–1956), a German-Jewish rabbi, theologian, historian and Holocaust survivor, from a psychoanalytic perspective. Paul Marcus...
