New Jewish Books
Translator: Paul Olchváry József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of...
Twelve-year-old Rosie is a musical prodigy whose synesthesia allows her to see music in colors. Her mom has always pushed her to become a concert violinist, but this summer Rosie refuses to play, wanting...
Illustrator: Siona Benjamin The Blue Butterfly of Cochin is the story of the ancient Jewish Indian community’s mass immigration to Israel in the 1950s. We follow Leah as she struggles to come to terms...
After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America’s most...
Illustrator: Michelle Simpson Seven-year-old Zinni loves learning about the world – especially the ocean and the wondrous creatures that live there! Of all the world’s fascinating sea creatures, her favorites are mollusks, like squids...
Illustrator: Bill Farnsworth This beloved and inspiring children’s book, now updated and expanded for a new generation, recounts the true story of how an American town took a stand against hate and antisemitism during...
Translator: Sondra Silverston A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis and the unexpected places from which love can grow. Nina, a teenage runaway, wakes up in the unfamiliar stairwell of a Tel...
Prize-winning author Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is a sharp and visceral nesting doll of a novel, about four generations of mothers and daughters and the inherited trauma cast by Russian history. Zhenia is adrift...
The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be...
Artist and Author Joel Silverstein has published an autobiographical painted narrative based on the Exodus story of the Hebrew Bible. Offering 64 stunning full-page images this startling work is both an artist’s catalog raisonné...
