Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Food & Wine
the Yiddish Book Center’s English-language magazine
I Carry My Mother is a book-length cycle of poems that explores a daughter’s journey through her mother’s illness and death
are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place
translation and God’s language
Witz by Joshua Cohen Discount Named one of the BestOn Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man child. As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo ball soup is in every