New Jewish Books
“There is something you should know,” Natan’s father said. “Comrade Stalin was not a great leader. He killed many innocent people, and he has been telling everyone to hate the Jews. We’re better off...
The inspiring, previously untold tale of survival, defiance, heroism, and an unlikely hero – the Jewish civil engineer and musician who led the extraordinarily successful guerilla war to liberate Ukraine from Nazi occupation during...
Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945 – 2025 Modern Orthodoxy is a form of American Judaism that affirms the traditional tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism while at the same time maintaining an openness...
True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS...
What could be more humiliating than your mom dating your assistant principal? Evie’s about to find out in this hilarious, big-hearted novel about surviving the uncertainties of middle school, sticking up for what you...
In a Beinoni time there should be no war, no terrible illness, no crime. Even if that also means there won’t be any great discoveries, any cures, anything extraordinary. Ezra believes that’s worth fighting...
An engaging biography that goes behind the myths to reveal the complex life of a transformative figure in modern American Judaism Rabbi, writer, teacher, and thinker, Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881–1983) was one of...
Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of Lvov Ignacy Chiger (1906-1975) recounts his family’s desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where they hid in the city’s underground sewers with the...
Illustrator: Violet Tobacco Joey has always felt different, especially when playing with friends like Adam or sitting with the girls at recess. By age nine, she knows she’s not a boy, but telling her...
An outstanding debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment house in Belgium during World War II. On the eve of...
