New Jewish Books
The Jewish community in India comprises a tiny but important part of the population. There are around five thousand Jews and five Jewish communities in India, but they are fast diminishing in number. Intrigued...
At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your...
Illustrator: Bethany Stancliffe In Eliza Davis’s day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a prejudice that was all too common at the time: prejudice...
Whoever saves a soul, saves the world A Parisian Count, a Moroccan arms smuggler, and an orphaned Spanish boy test the convictions and tug at the heart of Rifka Berg, a young Jewish corsetiere...
Illustrator: Jen Jamieson A young girl practices the Four Questions on her apartment balcony in Jerusalem and finds a way to bring the neighbors together for Passover even during the separation of a pandemic.
Illustrator: Kelly Tindall Show Me History! How did this peace-loving man become the father of the atomic bomb? Find out inside! By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand—and measure—space and time....
Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945 is a collection of first-person accounts, many previously unpublished, that document the flight and exile of...
New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor–winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg’s life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she’s forced to grapple with...
Illustrated with unique food faces art, the classic folktale of the crowded house is retold from the family cat’s point of view, with Passover preparation at its center.
A Jake McGreevy Novel How do a baking contest and a mission from World War II combine? With a whisk . . . and some risk! The wit and charm of The Great British...
