More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of...
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The Seventh Handmaiden by Judith Pransky
Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa....
Warsaw Ghetto Police by Katarzyna Person
The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of...
Babka, Boulou, & Blintzes by Michael Leventhal
Jewish Chocolate Recipes from around the World Discover the history of chocolate in Jewish food and culture with this unique recipe book, bringing together individual recipes from more than fifty noted Jewish bakers. This...
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color by LaNitra M. Berger
South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation’s most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime....
If This Is the Age We End Discovery by Rosebud Ben-Oni
A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch, moving through the multiverses of family, religion and discovery itself. The book culminates in an...
Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy
Real Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in...
Lies That Matter by Allan Gerson
A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle As the son of Holocaust survivors, federal prosecutor Allan Gerson thought...
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse. Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s...
Gottika by Helaine Becker
Illustrator: Vero Navarro 12-year-old Dany lives with his father, the scholarly Rob Judah, and his silent mother Rachel in the Stoon ghetto on the outskirts of Gottika. Under the ruthless Count Pol, the Stoon...
