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by Rachel Kadish
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
**WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison**
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two...
Short Stories by Jesus
The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern...
by Leanne Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either...
by Susan Lynn Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner Black Radishes is a suspenseful WWII/Holocaust story, in which one boy learns what it means to be Jewish and French at a time when everything is changing.
It is March of 1940. The French believe that their army can protect them from Nazi Germany. But...
Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words...
"The Rest of Us"
The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The New York Times–bestselling history of the Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who altered the American landscape from New York to Hollywood.
The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis...
by Lev Golinkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
**"[A] hilarious and heartbreaking story of a Jewish family’s escape from oppression."--The New York Times
A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the...
The Crime and the Silence
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category
A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truth
Jan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town...
Sons and Soldiers
The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
"An irresistible history of the WWII Jewish refugees who returned to Europe to fight the Nazis.” —Newsday
They were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to...
by Howard M. Sachar
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to...
by Joseph Roth
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001
The classic portrait of a vanished people.
Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these...
by Netanel Lorch
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including...
Someday You Will Understand
My Father's Private World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A daughter’s account of her father’s escape from the Nazis—and his journey back to Europe with the US Army to bring them to justice.
The scion of a Jewish merchant family, Walter Wolff fled Germany for Brussels, Belgium, when the Nazis came to power. But his new home was no refuge. On the...
On the Eve
The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.
In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World...