Pretending to be human, magical beings Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, find their lives intertwined as they try to make sense of the world around them and the people whose lives they have unwittingly affected. Chava is a golem, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Pretending to be human, they...

A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and Lilac Girls
In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed “Hansel” and “Gretel.”

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A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

The Fig Tree A collection of Original and retold traditional Jewish stories A fig tree in old Spain remembers what has long been forgotten.At a modern-day Malibu beach, a rudderless young surfer is looking for a purpose in his life.A young Jewish wife and mother is caught up in the carnage of the housing crash of 2008.During ancient times in the Middle East, a donkey saves an entire community from destruction. Come journey with Certified Jewish Storyteller...

Presented bilingually with a new English translation by Man Booker Prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen, these brief fables by Israeli author Daniel Oz engage with vast concepts about human nature. Full of timeless, open-ended parables, Further Up the Path offers no answers, moralizing, or conclusion: only an uneasy bewilderment with the paradoxes of the human-and animal-condition.

"Jewish mythology says that when G-d created the universe, a tiny corner of it was left unfinished. Opinion is divided on why, but everyone agrees that it's a dangerous place full of monsters. Twelve-year-old Miriam neither knows nor cares-- she's too busy preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, wrestling with whether she even wants to be Jewish-- until a peculiar angel appears, whisking her, her two best friends, and her worst frenemy off to this monstrous...