Category: New Books

The Rabbi and the Painter by Shoshona Weiss

The Rabbi and the Painter by Shoshona Weiss

Illustrator: Jennifer Kirkham Based on stories handed down from the past, this is the tale of a unique relationship between the 16th Century Venetian painter Tintoretto and Rabbi Leon Modena also known as Yahuda...

Horodno Burning by Michael Freed-Thall

Horodno Burning by Michael Freed-Thall

In the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement, Esther Leving, a brilliant young bibliophile, chafes at male dominance, religious dogma, and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle, a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller, hides...

Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Helene Meyers

Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Helene Meyers

Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic...

The Golden Dreidel by Ellen Kushner

The Golden Dreidel by Ellen Kushner

Illustrator: Kevin Keele Sara wishes her family celebrated Christmas or at least had one of the pretty trees she sees at her friends’ houses. But at her family’s big Chanukah party, mysterious guest Tante...