New Jewish Books
Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of Lvov Ignacy Chiger (1906-1975) recounts his family’s desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where they hid in the city’s underground sewers with the...
Illustrator: Violet Tobacco Joey has always felt different, especially when playing with friends like Adam or sitting with the girls at recess. By age nine, she knows she’s not a boy, but telling her...
An outstanding debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment house in Belgium during World War II. On the eve of...
A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy,...
A debut novel by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days, following two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search...
My Journey with Parental Trauma, Addiction, Healing In 1938, during Kristallnacht, Sonia Ascher’s father was seized by the Nazis from his home in Germany and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. This memoir follows her...
Illustrator: Sarah Lynne Reul A charming chapter-book series about a young Orthodox Jewish girl out to discover the truth about all the magical mysteries in her world, perfect for fans of Marya Khan and Zoey...
The Story of the Jewish Bund In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the...
A Historical WWII novel of Art, Love, and Resistance To reclaim what the Nazis stole, she must face what she tried to forget. Paris, 1940. Nicole Cassin is a Jewish teenager living above her...
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...
