New Jewish Books
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...
It’s Thanksgiving time and Amelie’s Bubbe and Nai Nai are visiting to celebrate the holiday. Amelie cannot wait for the delicious dinner of turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie! But, when Bubbe...
Illustrator: Emanuele Luzzati Translator: Ilana Kurshan A Snake, a Flood, a Hidden Baby: Bible Stories for Children features six popular stories from the Hebrew Bible retold with whimsy by one of Israel’s most celebrated...
New Jewish Philosophy and Thought The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered reading that...
Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women’s lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors...
You know the stories of World War II. Now meet the people who lived them. In the final months of World War II, Sam Ryan takes his place as a new soldier in the...
When Eastern European Jewish immigrants bring their klezmer music with them to America, it takes on a rockin’ new vibe, adding elements of Jazz borrowed from its new country. In the beautifully illustrated Klezmer!,...
