Send for Me: A Novel by Lauren Fox
An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. Annelise...
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I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944: The Graphic Novel by Lauren Tarshis
Illustrator: Álvaro Sarraseca It’s been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen’s home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max’s family, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max...
Reaching for Comfort: What I Saw, What I Learned, and How I Blew it Training as a Pastoral Counselor by Sherri Mandell
In 2004, Sherri Mandell won the National Jewish Book award for The Blessing of the Broken Heart, which told of her grief and initial mourning after her 13-year-old son Koby was brutally murdered. Years...
I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner
From the New York Times bestselling author of over 40 books comes Barbara Bottner’s I am Here Now – a beautiful novel in verse set in the 1960’s about one artist’s coming of age....
This Crazy Devotion by Philip Terman
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Philip Terman’s latest poetry collection, THIS CRAZY DEVOTION, begins appropriately enough with “Tormented Meshuggenehs,” “the crazy sages… / who dervished across the hayfields / and paused to yawp a parable to...
Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty by Claudia Friddell
Illustrator: Stacy Innerst Here is the story of how the Statue of Liberty got its pedestal when Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant and famous newsman, created one of the first American crowdfunding campaigns to...
The Donkey and the Garden by Devora Busheri
Illustrator: Menahem Halberstadt When Akiva and his wife Rachel walk past a school one morning, Akiva looks in sadly. Unlike the children, he has never learned to read or write. ‘Wouldn’t you like to...
Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz
Mimi Schwartz’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he’d tell her, “We all got along.” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad...
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed....
Sutzkever: Essential Prose by Avrom Sutzkever
Translator: Zackary Sholem Berger Fiction. Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated by Zackary Sholem Berger. Introduction by Heather Valencia. Through Zackary Sholem Berger’s translations, SUTZKEVER ESSENTIAL PROSE brings to light for English readers the largely unknown...
