New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Howard Fridson Join Max and his sister Lila as they navigate their synagogue’s Chanukah extravaganza, “Chanu-Con!” Their day’s highlights include making a human menorah, dipping Chanukah candles, tasting latkes and Chanukah treats, and...
The Miracle of Hanukkah is the perfect picture book to introduce children to the story and traditions of Hanukkah, with text by award-winning author Malachy Doyle and stunning, colourful illustrations from Christopher Corr, the...
The Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg (JFBB) began with 8 films in 1995, thus filling a gap in the cultural landscape of the Berlin and Brandenburg region. Twenty-five years later and with more...
Illustrator: Jill Weber In the small blue room there was a bubbala, and a little shmatta, and then—oy vey!—came the whole mishpacha! This zesty parody of one of America’s favorite picture books offers a...
Delight your senses and excite your palate as Yaniv Cohen, aka The Spice Detective, leads you on a culinary tour through the exciting world of Middle Eastern spices–including turmeric, cumin, sumac, za’atar, clove, cardamom,...
Illustrator: Marina Saumell Noah is a young boy who loves Hanukkah, but his favorite thing in the whole world is trucks. Why aren’t they part of the Hanukkah celebration? In this story, Noah devises...
The poems in Birthright embody multiple legacies: genetic, historical, religious, and literary. Through the lens of one person’s experience of inheritance, the poems suggest ways in which all of us may be influenced by...
Illustrator: T L Derby Every fable has a moral. On the last night of Hanukkah, a little dreidel learns the important lesson that true happiness comes from just being yourself. The plain wooden dreidel...
Translator: Sondra Silverston Nofar is an average teenage girl—so average, in fact, that she’s almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. One afternoon, a...
The pressure’s on – the holidays are coming. You’ve decided to host family and friends at home, and now the big, dreaded decisions are creeping in, “What am I going to serve? How can...
We live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as “holy war” are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the relationship between holiness and violence? Can acts such...
A Karakas Speaks by C.M. Kosemen
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker: My Father’s Holocaust Odyssey by Scott M. Neuman
Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Global Jewish Foodways: A History by Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto