The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor
On June 19 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbor and never...
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The Devil in Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen
Two brothers are admitted to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital with horrific injuries. Their mother, a young American, devoutly recites Psalms at the bedside, refusing to answer any questions. Brought in to investigate, Detective Bina Tzedek...
The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel
In the half-Hasidic, half-hipster Montreal neighborhood of Mile End, eleven-year-old Lev Meyer is discovering that there may be a place for Judaism in his life. As he learns about science in his day school,...
The Salt Mine: The Trail of Nazi Blood Money by Patrick Nolan Clark
OSS intelligence officer Tom O’Brien becomes obsessed in the search for a French war criminal who’d tortured his friend, a French agent working behind the German lines. Parachuted into southern France to search for...
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott
Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that’s based on a true story....
Days of Awe by Lauren Fox
Only a year ago, Isabel Moore was married, the object of adoration of her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short...
Saving Sophie by Ronald H. Balson
Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago. That is, until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became the main suspect in an $88 million dollar embezzlement case....
The Sound of Our Steps by Ronit Matalon
Dalya Bilu, translator The Sound of Our Steps is an inventive novel of immigration and exile from Ronit Matalon, a major voice in contemporary Israeli fiction. In the beginning there was Lucette, who is...
The Boatmaker by John Benditt
A man from a small island at the periphery of an unnamed country close to Europe builds a boat and voyages to the capital of his kingdom. There are apparently no Jews on the...
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
Two young sisters set out for fame and fortune in mid-twentieth century America—but this is only the surface story of the funny, sad, and fascinating journey Iris and Eva take in Amy Bloom’s new...
