New Jewish Books
Life-Tumbled Shards is a medical memoir dealing with illness, grief and loss. It touches on many other subjects: life in Jerusalem, life in the Old City, basic Jewish mourning customs, Jewish observance, the Holocaust...
#1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater dazzles in this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril. January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has...
Illustrator: Shahar Kober A joyful, rhyming tale of kindness and community! When two kids join a parade, a chain of helpers steps up in their place. Based on a Jewish teaching about responsibility, this...
A next-generation manifesto declaring that the fate of Western civilization depends on the security and thriving of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel—that the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their...
The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, making this area one of the most infamous mass murder sites...
How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung...
New Jewish Fiction Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Charley Bernstein works in the London art...
In 1985, they met by chance. As a young guitarist and violinist, Jake and Cait created something transcendent each time they locked eyes and finished each other’s musical phrases…. until the music stopped. Forty...
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II Before the start of WWII, some 93,000 Jews lived in Latvia. Almost half of them, 43,000 people, resided in Riga. Only 14,000 survived WWII. Valentīna Freimane’s memoir Farewell...
Illustrator: Steve Pileggi Yael has a new neighbor! It’s Gila, a girl with Down syndrome. Join Yael as she befriends Gila and learns that Hashem makes each of us in our own special way...
