Squirrel Hill by Mark Oppenheimer
The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America’s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that...
Category: New Books
Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen
In the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she...
Names in a Jar by Jennifer Gold
Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa’s bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge...
Raquela’s Seder by Joel Edward Stein
Illustrator: Sara Ugolotti Raquela yearns to celebrate a Passover seder, but Inquisition-era Spain is a time when Jews must hide their religion. Under the rising moon, her clever papa, the best fisherman in town,...
Come and Hear by Adam Kirsch
What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud. Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around...
Max and Emma Cross the Red Sea by Carl Harris Shuman
A Torah Time Travel Book Illustrator: C.B Decker Max and his new friend Emma time-travel to see Moses and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Together they learn some important lessons about faith, courage,...
Belonging and Betrayal by Charles Dellheim
How Jews Made the Art World Modern The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become...
The Jews of Long Island by Brad Kolodny
Excelsior Editions In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst...
The Topsy-Turvy Bus by Anita Fitch Pazner
Illustrator: Carolina Farías Reuse, recycle, renew, and rethink! Climb aboard the Topsy-Turvy Bus with Maddy and Jake as it travels around the country teaching communities the importance of taking care of the earth and...
What They Didn’t Burn by Mel Laytner
Uncovering My Father’s Holocaust Secrets What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or...
