Tagged: Jewish Book Council

The Sur­vivor of the Holocaust by Jack Eis­ner

The Sur­vivor of the Holocaust by Jack Eis­ner

A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor’s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to smuggling food and arms for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and tenaciously enduring a series of...

A Light in the North­ern Sea by Tim Brady

A Light in the North­ern Sea by Tim Brady

Denmark’s Incred­i­ble Res­cue of Their Jew­ish Cit­i­zens Dur­ing WWII August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist transports a cache of explosives, hidden in a beer crate, to a Copenhagen hall being readied to house German troops....

Four Red Sweaters by Lucy Adling­ton

Four Red Sweaters by Lucy Adling­ton

Pow­er­ful True Sto­ries of Women and the Holocaust The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly...

The Human Scale by Lawrence Wright

The Human Scale by Lawrence Wright

In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming...

Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds by Noga Arikha

Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds by Noga Arikha

A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology Franz Boas (1858–1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology....

Sis­ters of Fortune by Esther Chehe­bar

Sis­ters of Fortune by Esther Chehe­bar

The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding, even as her family scrambles to prepare for...

Hunt­ing in America by Tehi­la Haki­mi

Hunt­ing in America by Tehi­la Haki­mi

Translator: Joan­na Chen An award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction An Israeli woman...