Tagged: Jewish Book Council
How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years...
A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way...
The Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israel Translator: Ilana Kurshan The Sages brings the world of the Talmud to life, revealing the stories of the people behind its pages. This fascinating multivolume series explores the...
For fans of The Nightingale and The Handmaid’s Tale, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a topic rarely explored in fiction: the Lebensborn project, a Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. Through...
Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by...
Illustrator: Quentin Blake In a masterful new collaboration, personal poems and poignant art illuminate the experience of refugees and immigrants everywhere. That’s whyit can happen again.It does happen again.It has happened again. Some of...
Illustrator: Moran Yogev Every day young Nuri makes his way to the sea shore to eat some bread and throw a piece into the waves. He does so because his father told him to...
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown...
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling...
The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as...