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AJC x JBC Global Forum Reading List 10/7 Nonfiction For Such a Time As This: On Being Jewish Today Elliot Cosgrove Nonfiction Streams of Shattered Consciousness: A Chronicle of the First 50 Days of the Israel-Hamas War David-Seth Kirshner Nonfiction The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel's Borderlands Amir Tibon Nonfiction Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? S. Ilan Troen Nonfiction 10/7: One Hundred Human Stories Lee Yaron Antisemitism Nonfiction Countering Antisemitism & Hate: A How-to-Guide for Youth (8 to18), Family & Educators Lynne Azarchi, Harlene Lichter Galen Nonfiction We Need to Talk About Antisemitism Diana Fersko Nonfiction Saying No to Hate: Overcoming Antisemitism in America Norman H. Finkelstein Nonfiction Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew Emmanuel Acho, Noa Tishby Nonfiction #antisemitism: Coming of Age During the Resurgence of Hate Samantha A. Vinokor-Meinrath American Jewish Heritage Nonfiction The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance Rebecca Clarren Nonfiction Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America Hasia R. Diner Nonfiction Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War Jason K. Friedman Nonfiction Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American Rachel Gordan Nonfiction Not From Here: The Song of America Leah Lax Nonfiction The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld Dan Slater Nonfiction Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Michael W. Twitty Children’s Children's Challah for Shabbat Tonight Sara Holly Ackerman Children's Across So Many Seas Ruth Behar Children's Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton Lori Dubbin; Amanda Quartey, illus. Children's Doña Gracia Saved Worlds Bonni Goldberg Children's Two New Years Richard Ho; Lynn Scurfield, illus. Children's A Feather, a Pebble, a Shell Miri Leshem-Pelly Fiction Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop Joshua S. Levy Children's The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman Mari Lowe Cookbooks Cookbook Kugels & Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina Rachel Gordin Barnett, Lyssa Kligman Harvey Cookbook The Eucalyptus Cookbook Moshe Basson Cookbook Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle Cookbook The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long Naama Shefi Cookbook Nosh: Plant-Forward Recipes Celebrating Modern Jewish Cuisine Micah Siva Contemporary Fiction Fiction The Goddess of Warsaw Lisa Barr Fiction The Boy with the Star Tattoo Talia Carner Fiction Olive Days Jessica Elisheva Emerson Fiction I Made It Out of Clay Beth Kander Fiction Fervor Toby Lloyd Fiction Next Stop Benjamin Resnick Fiction Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel Ayelet Tsabari Fiction The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden Fiction What You Do to Me Rochelle B. Weinstein Hebrew Fiction Fiction The Hebrew Teacher Maya Arad; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction The Wolf Hunt Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Fiction Operation Bethlehem: An Espionage Thriller Yariv Inbar; Dalit Shmueli, trans. Fiction On Her Own Lihi Lapid; Sondra Silverston, trans. Fiction Inside Information Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans. Fiction Stockholm Noa Yedlin Pride Nonfiction Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir Sara Glass Poetry unalone Jessica Jacobs Fiction Song of Myself: A Gay Man's Odyssey of Self-Discovery Arnie Kantrowitz Fiction This Terrible True Thing: A Visual Novel Jenny Laden Nonfiction The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir Chef Rossi Fiction The Sins on Their Bones Laura R. Samotin Fiction Forget I Told You This Hilary Zaid Additional Highlights Nonfiction Matchmaker Matchmaker: Find Me a Love That Lasts Aleeza Ben Shalom Nonfiction Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination–and Secret Diplomacy–to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East Yonah Jeremy Bob, llan Evyatar Nonfiction Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds. Nonfiction Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah Ezra Glinter Nonfiction Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict Oren Kessler Nonfiction The Old Jewish Men's Guide to Eating, Sleeping, and Futzing Around Noah Rinsky Nonfiction Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story Jordan Salama Visual Arts Humans of Judaism: Everyone Has a Story. What’s Yours? Nikki Schreiber Nonfiction Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz
Nonfiction Streams of Shattered Consciousness: A Chronicle of the First 50 Days of the Israel-Hamas War David-Seth Kirshner
Nonfiction The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel's Borderlands Amir Tibon
Nonfiction Countering Antisemitism & Hate: A How-to-Guide for Youth (8 to18), Family & Educators Lynne Azarchi, Harlene Lichter Galen
Nonfiction Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America Hasia R. Diner
Nonfiction The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld Dan Slater
Children's Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton Lori Dubbin; Amanda Quartey, illus.
Cookbook Kugels & Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina Rachel Gordin Barnett, Lyssa Kligman Harvey
Cookbook The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long Naama Shefi
Nonfiction Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination–and Secret Diplomacy–to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East Yonah Jeremy Bob, llan Evyatar
Nonfiction Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz