New Jewish Books
Here are the top 5 most popular/visited books from the 52 books I added in January 2022. (Based on the number of times these books’ pages were visited in February 2022, the first month...
Illustrator: Carolina Farías Reuse, recycle, renew, and rethink! Climb aboard the Topsy-Turvy Bus with Maddy and Jake as it travels around the country teaching communities the importance of taking care of the earth and...
Uncovering My Father’s Holocaust Secrets What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or...
Music and the Early Modern Imagination Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy...
Here is a wonderful, innovative blend of pertinent, easy-to-read, practical halachah embellished by insightful lessons from Gedolim, Food for Thought; fascinating factual asides; full-color, step-by-step guides to Megillah & Menorah; plus – the whole...
Translator: Bill Nagelkerke Jeska doesn’t know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What...
Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies on all fronts; of these, 30,000–40,000 died of wounds or illness,...
Illustrator: Marlene D’Orazio Adler Once upon a time in a far away land, a beautiful Jewish Queen and her courageous uncle saved their people and established the joyous holiday of Purim filled with songs,...
A shy seventh grader learns to step into the spotlight in this heartwarming middle-grade novel by acclaimed author, Diana Harmon Asher Shira Gordon is painfully shy. She rarely speaks and blushes at everything. And...
Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties The Modern Jewish Experience In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist...
