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REGISTER FOR ZOOM Confidential, a novel by Mikolaj Grynberg Acclaimed Polish author Mikołaj Grynberg offers a darkly comic and emotionally rich portrait of a Jewish family navigating life in contemporary Poland. Spanning three generations shaped by the Holocaust, this brief but powerful novella explores memory, trauma, and...

REGISTER FOR ZOOM On Her Own, a novel by Lihi Lap Set in Tel Aviv over the course of a few charged weeks, On Her Own follows Nina, a teenage runaway who finds unexpected refuge with Carmela, a lonely widow battling memory loss. Mistaken for Carmela’s long-lost granddaughter,...

REGISTER FOR ZOOM The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margarlit Fox Acclaimed author Margalit Fox uncovers the true story of Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor German Jewish immigrant who rose from peddling on Manhattan’s streets to becoming the most...

REGISTER FOR ZOOM Hotel Cuba, a novel by Aaron Hamburger Russian Jewish sisters Pearl and Frieda flee war and revolution, hoping to start a new life in America—only to be turned away at Ellis Island. Stranded in 1920s Havana, they must adapt to a seductive, unfamiliar world...

REGISTER FOR ZOOM Fervor, a novel by Toby Lloyd The Rosenthals, a devout Jewish family in North London, are shaken when teenage daughter Elsie disappears and returns disturbingly changed. As her mother unearths a dark family secret from the Holocaust and Elsie dives deep into Jewish mysticism,...

REGISTER Songs for the Brokenhearted, a novel by Ayelet Tsabari In this powerful debut, Zohara returns to Israel after her mother’s death and uncovers a hidden love story from 1950s immigrant life. As she reconnects with her roots, Zohara begins to unravel long-buried family secrets that challenge...

REGISTER By Any Other Name, a novel by Jodi Picoult Modern-day playwright Melina Green struggles to get her new play produced—until a friend submits it under a male pseudonym. Centuries earlier, her ancestor Emilia Bassano, a gifted writer in Elizabethan England, secretly enlists a young actor named...

REGISTER Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller In this award-winning thriller, 82-year-old Sheldon Horowitz, a sharp-tongued former Marine, finds himself protecting a young boy after a violent incident in his Norwegian apartment building. As the unlikely pair flee through the wilderness, Sheldon’s past collides with the...

REGISTER I Seek A Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger Journalist Julian Borger uncovers a hidden piece of his family’s history: an advert placed in 1938 by his grandfather, seeking someone to save his son—Borger’s father—from...

REGISTER The Human Scale, a novel by Lawrence Wright In this gripping and timely thriller by Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, Palestinian American FBI agent Tony Malik travels to the West Bank on a personal trip—but quickly finds himself entangled in the murder investigation of an Israeli...