Category: New Books

Chelm for the Holidays by Valerie Estelle Frankel

Chelm for the Holidays by Valerie Estelle Frankel

Illustrator: Sonja Wimmer Celebrating Jewish holidays has never been sillier than in Chelm, the Village of Fools! While the Chelmites try to solve problems―like outsmarting bees to get Rosh Hashanah honey, and keeping menorah...

How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss

How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss

On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree...

The Fifth Column by Andrew Gross

The Fifth Column by Andrew Gross

February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell’s Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman...

The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Man­ning

The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Man­ning

A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. 1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the “Paris of the East”. Beautiful...

The Girl in the Haystack by Bryon MacWilliams

The Girl in the Haystack by Bryon MacWilliams

Hours after Germany invades the Soviet Union in 1941, nationalists in a small Ukrainian town carry out a pogrom against local Jews, killing dozens and leaving others for dead. One survivor is a seven-year-old...