Sing, Memory by Makana Eyre
The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen...
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Because the World Is Round by Jane Saginaw
A story of global travel, personal growth, and family responsibility through the lens of 15-year-old Jane in 1970. Fifteen-year-old Jane was trapped. Trapped in high school in Dallas, Texas where her classes were too...
Incident at San Miguel by A.J. Sidransky
Havana, Cuba. December 1958. Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of Castro’s revolution. One dark night, after rescuing of a leader of the revolt under house arrest, one brother finds himself hunted. The...
The Family Morfawitz by Daniel H. Turtel
From acclaimed author Daniel Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz: a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphosis. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with...
Kibbitz and Nosh by Marcia Bricker Halperin
When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria On a winter’s day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow’s Cafeteria...
The House of Love and Prayer: and Other Stories by Tova Reich
In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, Tova Reich dives deep into the world of Orthodox Jewry—a world that her stories, like the shows “Unorthodox” and “Shtisel,” embrace with respect and affection while also...
Lemons in the Fog by Chaya Rochel Zimmerman
Meir Rosen is a mature, responsible bachur who’s excited to be in a post-high-school yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael—a year filled with Torah study, visits to the Kosel, and touring ancient sites. But periods of...
Political Power: Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Michael Frizell
A former actor and comedian, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy serves as the sixth president of Ukraine. At the height of his popularity on national television, playing the president in The Servant of the People, he...
The Salt Line by Youval Shimoni
Translator: Michael Sharp In 1904, a wounded Russian Jew turns up in northern India on the run from his pursuers and his own conscience. He doesn’t miss anyone – neither his parents nor the...
Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan
Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel–and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us. Our favorite books keep us company,...
