literary arts

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping…

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop — a team of European Jews who escaped the continent only to join the…

Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel’s Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, see the dilemmas of politics, diplomacy, and values faced by Israel’s leaders as…

A multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.

In this hilarious and heartfelt novel, follow the Greenspans over the course of one tumultuous year as they question, and compromise, the values that have shaped their lives. $60

Vincent, a New York Post investigative journalist recovers the story of two British sisters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and…

Mamie was only 11 when her family escaped Vienna in 1939 and made their way to Lose Angeles with other Jews escaping Hitler. Now in 2020, Mamie tells her grandson…

A moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, inspired by the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the…

A sweeping intergenerational story told through a grandfather’s letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson’s life…

A deeply evocative novel following the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston. $60