The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris
In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a...
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The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia by Julien Hirszhaut / Valerie Schatzker
Part One: The Jewish Oil Magnates: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker Part Two: The Jewish Oil Magnates, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut The near-annihilation of Europe’s Jews in the Second World War destroyed not...
A Master Plan for Rescue by Janis Cooke Newman
Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, A Master Plan for Rescue is a novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is...
Freedom’s Island by Sabra Waldfogel
When Ambrose Byrd, retired Buffalo soldier, arrives in the all-black town of Willow Bend, Mississippi, he’s looking for peace, but he walks into trouble. The town’s mayor, Jim Truehart, bought the land from his...
Shelter Us by Laura Nicole Diamond
Sarah Shaw is a lawyer-turned-stay-home-mom struggling to raise two young sons while grieving the death of an infant daughter. While driving in Los Angeles one day, Sarah sees a homeless mother and child and...
Remember the Scorpion by Isaac Goldemberg
Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss,...
Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone
On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind....
The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer
A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Everything Is Illuminated Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and...
Forgiving Maximo Rothman by A. J. Sidransky
Like many juicy mysteries, Forgiving Máximo Rothman, AJ Sidransky’s debut novel, begins with a murder. In this case, the victim is Max Redmond, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor found dead in his Washington Heights apartment....
Enemy in the Garden: A Novel of Intrigue and Suspense by Harriet Pike
“Everything grows in the suburbs. Grass. Trees. Flowers. Ugly ideas. Take, for example, anti-Semitism.” What happens to an ordinary suburban family when the father is kidnapped by neo-Nazi thugs? Nora Miller’s perfect suburban world...
