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Recommended Reading Tortured Artists: A Reading List of Characters Caught Between Desire and Duty Sarah Seltzer August 5, 2024
Nonfiction The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom Adina Allen
Nonfiction Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto Harry Freedman
Children’s Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.
Children’s Heroes with Chutzpah: 101 True Tales of Jewish Trailblazers, Changemakers and Rebels Kerry Olitzky Deborah Bodin Cohen
Children’s Harry and the Highwire: Houdini’s First Amazing Act Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus.
Interview—From the Journal The Diary Beyond Anne Frank: A Conversation with Nina Siegal and Yael van der Wouden Becca Kantor May 28, 2024
