New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Jason Kirschner Some people think jokes are silly, but not Mel Brooks. For Mel, humor is serious. And Mel is seriously funny! This picture book biography of the legendary comedian and filmmaker shares...
From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her...
A riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams—and spelled her family’s downfall. When she was eleven years...
A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II An immigration journalist and her wife trace their family’s intertwined past to unearth a history of how hundreds of...
Foreword: Sandor Ellix Katz An illustrated history of the ever-popular New York pickle told with amazing archival images and ephemera from the New York Historical and beyond. The Pickled City takes a glorious deep dive...
Yanni is a lucky little owl who loves celebrating Shabbat with his family in their warm, cozy nest. He and his whole family sing, eat, and play together until it’s time to say goodbye...
Exposing the Ancient Roots of Antisemitism and Why the Spirit of Esther Must Arise The lies come first. The violence always follows. Since October 7, 2023-the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust-the...
Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness? In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II:...
Magic is real, demons walk the earth, and Max’s brother is dead. Max Asher, Jewish mystic and private-eye, never thought he’d be coming back to his home town to bury his twin brother, Solomon....
Fight hate. Make art. In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma’s world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. That pivotal moment lights a fire within her, and she decides to...
