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The World After Alice by Lau­ren Aliza Green

The World After Alice by Lau­ren Aliza Green

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, twelve years after a devastating tragedy upended...

Soul House by Mireille Gansel

Soul House by Mireille Gansel

Translator: Joan Seliger Sid­ney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French-Jewish poet, translator, and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in...

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty by Adi­na Allen

Cul­ti­vat­ing Cre­ativ­i­ty Through Ancient Jew­ish Wisdom The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish...

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Near­ly Depart­ed by Gila Pfef­fer

Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise By the...

Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright

Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright

An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of Scrip­ture and its Origins Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so...

A Boy from Baghdad by Miri­am Halahmy

A Boy from Baghdad by Miri­am Halahmy

“Jews are no longer safe in Iraq. When are you going to get it through your thick head?” It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Salman Shasha is happy with his life in Baghdad. But trouble is...

Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pin­sky

Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pin­sky

Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in...