Pavel and the Tree Army by Heidi Smith Hyde
Illustrated by Elisa Vavouri Pavel is a new American, excited about his new country. When his rabbi tells him that the Civilian Conservation Corps is hiring young people, Pavel is thrilled. As a member...
Category: New Books
This Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem by Elisha Waldman
In 2007, Elisha Waldman, a New York–based doctor in his mid-thirties, was offered his dream job: attending physician at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center. He had gone to medical school in Israel and spent time...
Nothing Is Forgotten by Peter A. Golden
From the beloved author of Comeback Love and Wherever There Is Light, comes a novel about the life-changing journey of a young man who travels from New Jersey to Khrushchev’s Russia and the beaches...
Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities by Ori Soltes
In Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on, and the expanding array of practitioners of ‘Jewish art’ in the past two hundred years....
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes
Translator: Jefferson Chase Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes of a select cast of characters–Nazi leaders and foreign...
All the World Praises You! by Debra Band
This sparkling illuminated Jewish children’s picture-book is inspired by the charming medieval Jewish work, Perek Shira (Chapter of Song). In All the World Praises You, wonders of the natural world exclaim biblical praises of...
A River Could be a Tree by Angela Himsel
Foreword by Shulem Deen How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana as a fundamentalist Christian end up a practicing Jew in New York? Angela Himsel was raised in a German-American family,...
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
Her name is Sarah. She’s blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets...
When Paul Met Artie: The Story of Simon & Garfunkel by G. Neri
David Litchfield, illustrator From childhood friendship to brief teenage stardom, from early failures to musical greatness — the incredible story of how Simon & Garfunkel became a cherished voice of their generation. Long before...
Esther’s Gragger: A Toyshop Tale of Purim by Martha Seif Simpson
Illustrated by Durga Yael Bernhard Young Esther has earned a special gragger (whirling noisemaker) by delivering charitable gifts on Purim, a Jewish holiday based on the story of Queen Esther. Now she is ready...
