Tagged: Jewish Book Council

You’ve Told Me Before by Jen­nifer Anne Moses

You’ve Told Me Before by Jen­nifer Anne Moses

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, always compelling, the stories in this collection explore the many manifestations of being Jewish in a modern and largely secular world. Jennifer Anne Moses creates characters, mostly American, who are...

Bau: Artist at War by Joseph Bau

Bau: Artist at War by Joseph Bau

A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration camps...

The Dev­il’s Cas­tle by Susanne Pao­la Antonetta

The Dev­il’s Cas­tle by Susanne Pao­la Antonetta

Nazi Eugen­ics, Euthana­sia, and How Psy­chi­a­try’s Trou­bled His­to­ry Rever­ber­ates Today The Devil’s Castle delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to explain how we as a culture continue...

Isabela’s Way by Bar­bara Stark-Nemon

Isabela’s Way by Bar­bara Stark-Nemon

For fans of Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea, this coming-of-age tale of one fourteen-year-old girl’s escape from early-seventeenth-century Portugal’s Inquisition, achieved with the help of a clandestine band of allies, will thrill and...

Golem­crafters by Emi Watan­abe Cohen

Golem­crafters by Emi Watan­abe Cohen

Emi Watanabe Cohen’s sophomore novel travels from the most awkward surface tensions to the beautiful depths of Jewish culture and lore for a tale of magical and emotional discovery. On the same day Faye’s...