New Jewish Books
An Analysis of the Serekh Ha-yaad Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism How did early Jewish scribes understand their own textual traditions? Using the Serekh ha-Ya?ad from Qumran as a test case, this...
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diary’s fragile pages tell. It’s the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in...
The Lamps of History wrestles with the ambiguities—and choices—between connection/alienation, renewal/decay, and faith/doubt. Its poems explore family histories and our stance toward them as they dim, frayed bonds with our grandparents’ traditions and beliefs,...
From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad – My Grandfather’s Life “Titan of Tehran,” a richly reported and elegantly rendered story, presents a compelling central character, historic sweep and moments that read...
Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate,...
With: Kimberly Zerkel Photographer: Jim Sullivan Jewish Food: The Ultimate Cookbook is a beautiful and thorough collection of recipes drawn from Jewish traditions and inspired by the contemporary international cultures rooted in this incredible...
Notes From a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman Buy a pair of Levi’s, lose the Russian accent, become an American…how hard could it be? Moscow, 1988. After years of antisemitic harassment, countless...
Illustrator: Deborah Melmon Getting ready for Shabbat is always a bit zany, but… flying matzoh balls?!?!?! Bubbe and her best buddy, Bart, make the perfect matzoh-ball-chasing team in this hilarious Jewish counting book!
Short Stories with a Hidden Lesson for Today Learned from the Weekly Parashah Take a story with a dilemma, add something new from the parashah, and what do you get? A practical lesson for...
Thirteen-year-old Eddie needs to do a community service project in preparation for his bar mitzvah. Against his better judgment, he ends up with a volunteering gig at Silver Brook Pavilion retirement home, where the...
