New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Jason Kirschner It’s Challah Day! A family mixes, kneads, and braids bread in this joyful, rhyming story about a Jewish holiday food that’s baked with love. From kneading sticky dough to gathering with...
Illustrator: Sara Luna Irena Sendler was a humanitarian and social worker in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Her job allowed her to pass through the armed gates of the Warsaw ghetto, bringing limited...
Russian-Jewish Literature between Soviet Underground and Post-Soviet Deconstruction Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust,...
Local Histories through Global Lenses This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the...
Illustrator: Sarah Dvojack An inspiring, uplifting picture book biography about iconic doll creator, Madame Alexander, whose love for dolls and bringing joy to others began at a young age and only continued to grow....
The sequel to the popular Living Kaddish, it is a must read and a great gift for those saying Kaddish. This book will uplift and inspire you with stories of what people have done...
Most novels I read nowadays seem to fall into one of three categories: they are written for entertaining purposes (mysteries, thrillers, science fiction…) or try to educate me (historical fiction) or, rather infrequently, they...
Here is the list of the 68 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
A delightful celebration of Jewish delicatessens in an accessible comics format, full of history and humor, and guaranteed to make you hungry. Beloved culinary and cultural institutions, Jewish delis are wonderlands of amazing flavors...
Translator: Stuart Schoffman A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy—and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine’s practical...
