The Giving Table by Naomi Ross
Welcome to a delicious celebration of our most inspired cooking…the food we share! Food writer and veteran culinary educator Naomi Ross teaches us how to master the basics of home cooking. Savor morsels of...
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Nothing Could Stop Her by Rona Arato
The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber Illustrator: Isabel Muñoz Ruth Gruber didn’t want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Born to a Jewish American family in 1911,...
Funny, You Don’t Look Funny by Jennifer Caplan
Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more...
Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s by Bernard Malamud
The long-awaited third and final volume of Library of America’s edition of Bernard Malamud’s writings brings together three novels and thirteen stories of the 1970s and 80s that reaffirm his place in the American...
Professor Schiff’s Guilt by Agur Schiff
Translator: Jessica Cohen A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a...
How to Become an American by Daniel Wolff
A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness An odyssey from pre–Civil War Charleston to post–World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants’ eyes The histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in...
The Postcard by Anne Berest
Translator: Tina Kover Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of...
Parallel Lines by Ruth Marks Eglash
Imagine coming of age surrounded by terror and militancy. Tamar, Nour, and Rivki all live in Jerusalem, and all are on the cusp of adulthood, but in a city of tribal culture and an...
Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald
For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her—but she has no interest...
Out and About: A Tale of Giving by Liza Wiemer
Illustrator: Margeaux Lucas In this inspiring story, we follow Daniel as he tries to find out where his parents are going and what’s inside the mysterious boxes they’re carrying. Daniel’s imagination runs wild―could there...
