The Porridge Pot Goblin by Jacqueline Jules
Illustrator: Hector Borlasca This modern update of a Jewish folktale includes a working single mom and two kids who want to let her rest while they get ready for Shabbat. But first they have...
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias,...
The Book of Revolutions by Edward Feld
The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah The Torah is truly the Book of Revolutions, born from a military coup (the Northern Israelite revolution), the aftermath of an assassination and...
The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant
My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope Foreword by Ben Kingsley A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving...
The 75 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2022
Here is the list of the 75 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Modern Jewish Comfort Food by Shannon Sarna
100 Fresh Recipes for Classic Dishes from Kugel to Kreplach A satisfying collection of Jewish comfort food with classic dishes and modern variations. Comfort food varies from person to person, family to family, region...
Pretend Plumber: An Adventure by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Sarassine Anfang is a precocious, queer-curious Los Angeles teen, who grows so fed up with her wealthy, dysfunctional Jewish Hancock Park family that she decides to run away to her grandfather’s Wilshire condo, and...
Jews of Iran by Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B. Sternfeld, Parvaneh Vahidmanesh
A Photographic Chronicle Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination This book reveals one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of our time. Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a captive and...
The Opera Sisters by Marianne Monson
Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England....
Crooked Lines: A Single Mom’s Jewish Journey by Jenna Zark
When you part company with the life you’ve been living, how do you start a new one?While trying to sort out the answer to this question–along with the question of what being Jewish meant...
