At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Tara Ison
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small...
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Eve and Adam and Their Very First Day by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Irina Avgustinovich In this unusual retelling, the biblical story of creation is told from Eve’s perspective and explores what it might have been like emotionally for the world’s first two people to experience...
Below Zero by Carol V. Davis
In Below Zero, her fourth poetry collection, Carol V. Davis explores Siberia, an area in Russia largely unknown to Americans. Flying into Ulan-Ude, capital of Buryatia Republic, where she had never been, she mutters...
Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman
London, 1832: Isabelle Lira may be in distress, but she’s no damsel. Since her father’s death, his former partners have sought to oust her from their joint equity business. Her only choice is to...
Amusing the Angels by Stewart Florsheim
“In this richly diverse mélange of human lives, many actual and many imagined, Stewart Florsheim embraces the light and the dark much as his beloved Rembrandt employed chiaroscuro to reveal the complexity of a...
How To Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum
Translator: Daniella Zamir The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home,...
Jewish Sunday Schools by Laura Yares
Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing...
The Lost Spy and the Green Dress by Alex Paz-Goldman
For twelve year-old Motti, growing up in Israel in the 1960s, the world is full of mysteries to be solved, while his town is full of spies to be caught. His parents are Holocaust...
Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack
Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness—even facing the Angel of Death himself. From Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award finalist Sofiya Pasternack. Pesah has...
Beni’s Tiny Tales: Around the Year in Jewish Holidays by Jane Breskin Zalben
Join Beni and his family as they celebrate a year in Jewish Holidays, including all their favorite craft activities, recipes, songs, and stories for each occasion. The perfect gift book that gives all year...
