New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Anna Krajewska In Schmoozeville, a town passionately divided over whether latkes should be eaten with apple sauce or sour cream, the young main character brings a golem to life, and fun and zany...
Illustrator: Bethany Stancliffe Discover the fascinating true story of Jewish immigrants who played a key role in the creation of the beloved teddy bear, connecting their humble Brooklyn candy shop to the President of...
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family...
Imagine if a book were like a well-cut diamond. You can look at it from different angles, and it is beautiful from all directions. At the same time, depending on your perspective, you see...
Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement There was a time when women’s health was marginalized. There was a time when breast cancer wasn’t discussed. There...
Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews’ thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed...
A Children’s Story of Finding Friendship and Learning the Meaning of Hanukkah Can Rebecca solve the mystery of the missing menorah before Hanukkah ends? On the first night of Hanukkah, Rebecca gets the perfect...
Perfect for fans of Star Fish and From the Desk of Zoe Washington, a nuanced middle grade from the author of The Prettiest about two girls―one “bad” and one “good”―who join forces against book banning and censorship. Rose is a...
The first decades of the 21st century have presented numerous challenges for European Jewry: far-right movements and a rise of antisemitism, a global pandemic, and a war on European soil. At the same time,...
A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice Illustrator: Stacy Innerst Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there was Louis D. Brandeis: a lawyer/activist turned Supreme Court Justice who drew on common sense and...
