Caste-ing Off Expectations – Fiction
In Renée Ahdieh’s Park Avenue: A Novel, Jia, the ambitious daughter of Korean bodega owners, is living her dream as a Manhattan lawyer. But when
Hyam Plutzik And The Mosaic Of Time – Poetry
Edited by Victoria Aarons, Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time: Essays and Selected Poems is an original collection of essays by scholars and poets
Sisters, Secrets & Family Struggles – Fiction
Esther Chehebar’s Sisters of Fortune: A Novel is the story of three sisters in a Syrian Jewish family: a rebellious – and single – older
Surviving The Survivor With Joel Z. Waldman & Karmela Waldman – Nonfiction
Karmela Waldman is an octogenarian psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor. Her son, Joel Z. Waldman, is a successful broadcast journalist. Mastering podcasting is one thing; figuring
Finding Family & Yourself – Fiction
In Lauren Grodstein‘s A Dog in Georgia: A Novel, Amy Webb was a chef. Then she became a wife, a stepmother, and an emergency contact,
Contemporary Yiddish Lit: Discussing Chaim Grade’s Sons And Daughters – Fiction
Join Altie Karper, editorial director of Schocken Books/Penguin Random House for more than 20 years; Todd Portnowitz, senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf; and Rose
Cuban American Authors Traverse Sea & Sky – Fiction & Nonfiction
Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo
Stories Of Jewish Resistance, Tragedies & Triumphs – Nonfiction
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Leslie Gelrubin Benitah‘s documentary The Last Ones of Auschwitz collects the stories of the last remaining
IN THE HOLOCAUST’S SHADOW, IS THERE STILL LIGHT? – FICTION & NONFICTION
KEREN BLANKFELD’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story is a remarkable saga about Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia, who fell in love in Auschwitz, were
GOOD HUMOR: THREE LIVES – NONFICTION
SHALOM AUSLANDER was raised in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father, guilt-wielding mother,
DYNASTIC INFLUENCES
JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of
HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER
Join us for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots