Hotel Moscow, by Talia Carner

From the author of Jerusalem Maiden, comes a thought-provoking novel

that tells the story of

an American woman — the daughter of Holocaust survivors — who

travels to Russia to teach entrepreneurial skills to Russian business

women. She wonders, though, what awaits her in the country that

persecuted her mother just a generation ago.

  • Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World

   and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, by Hasia R. Diner.

Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews immigrated to new

lands. They followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book tells the

remarkable story of the Jewish men who bravely traveled forth to sell their goods to people

across the world. These peddlers propelled a mass migration of Jewish families to the U.S.,

Great Britain, South Africa, and Latin America.

  • An Unorthodox Match, by Naomi Ragen

A woman who seems to have it all suddenly decides to seek spirituality in the insular, ultraorthodox enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn. A moving novel of faith, love and acceptance.