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Nonfiction One One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity Amy Fish
Children’s Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.
Nonfiction Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection Sam Apple
From the Journal ‘The Secret Was Me’: A Conversation with Dani Shapiro and T Kira Madden Becca Kantor January 28, 2020
Children’s What’s in a Name?: A Young Person’s Jewish Genealogy Workbook Stephen M. Cohen and Caryn Alter
Nonfiction Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Dr. Laurie Zoloth, eds.
Essay A Gene Mutation, a Motherly Connection, and the Power of String Jennifer Rosner is author of the picture book, The Mitten String (Random House, 2014) and the memoir, If A Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard… Jennifer Rosner November 3, 2014
Essay Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood Earlier this week, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to our contemporary understanding of Jewishness. He will be blogging here… Harry Ostrer June 29, 2012
Essay Chaim Sheba: Identifying Founder Effects for Jewish Genetic Diseases In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to our contemporary understanding of… Harry Ostrer June 27, 2012
Essay Joseph Jacobs: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Genetically In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to our contemporary understanding of… Harry Ostrer June 25, 2012
