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Cover of Nothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber

Nothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber

Rona Arato; Isabel Muñoz, illus.

Cover of Professor Schiff's Guilt

Professor Schiff’s Guilt

Agur Schiff; Jessica Cohen, trans.

Essay

The Relevance of Ruth to Shavuot

Ilana Pardes

May 19, 2023

Cover of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Cover of Night Angels

Weina Dai Randel

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Nine Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month

JBC Staff

March 13, 2023

Cover of A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I

A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in World War I

Polly Zavadivker

Essay

The Differences Between Us

Armando Lucas Correa

January 9, 2023

Cover of The Village Idiot

The Village Idiot

Cover of Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West

Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West

Essay

The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writing a Sephardic Picture Book

Ruth Behar

June 13, 2022

Cover of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust

The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust

Cover of Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa

Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa

Susan Gilson Miller

Cover of The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America

The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America

Norman H. Finkelstein

Essay

Paris, 1939

Meg Waite Clayton

October 25, 2021

Cover of 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939

37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939

Barbara Krasner