The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2015
From Tablet Magazine Stories about dogs and cats and even Santa Claus make the perfect Hanukkah gift this year By Marjorie Ingall It’s tough to find the perfect Jewish gift to give your kids...
Category: New Books
Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon
A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both...
The Death of Jacob by Kerry D. Lee, Jr.
Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 In The Death of Jacob: Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 Kerry Lee investigates the deathbed story of the patriarch Jacob and uncovers the presence of a variety of conventional...
Preservation, Intrigue and Property: Dissolving Boston’s Vilna Shul Congregation 1985-2001 by Michael Weingarten
This book tells the story of how a dying synagogue congregation on Boston’s Beacon Hill (the Vilner Congregation, which built and operated the Vilner (Vilna) Shul on Phillips Street) filed what it thought would...
Etched in My Memory: Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor by Miriam M. Brysk
In 2002, after retiring from academia, I returned to the ghettos, killing fields and death camps of Eastern Europe. Throughout the trip my fears reemerged and I felt traumatized again. My memories became more...
Royal Challenge by Yitzhak Salomon
Young Bijan helps a wise old traveler… and rediscovers the lost game of chess. Ultimately, King Cyrus is so impressed that he rewards Bijan with any single request. Watch his request take on a...
Survivor: Aron’s Story by Alex Teplish – Graphic Novel
This unique project is part graphic novel and part historical education. The first part of this book shares Aron’s (my grandfather) experience, living in Odessa, Ukraine (part of the former USSR) and his survival...
Plus One by Christopher Noxon
Plus One is a funny novel about an interfaith family set in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman–Zicklin is a midlevel marketing executive raised in the hippie mountain hamlet of Ojai, whose wife Figgy’s fourteenth...
Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory by Oren Baruch Stier
The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and...
Hanukkah Fun Book For Children by Rachel Mintz
Hanukiah, Dreidel, Latkes, Judah Maccabee, Menorah, Candles, Miracle, Cruse of Oil, Chanukah Songs David Levin (Illustrator) Join Dave in another fun book for children, this time they learn about Hanukkah and the story behind...
