The Three Latkes by Eric A. Kimmel
Illustrator: Feronia Parker-Thomas When three Hanukkah latkes fight over which of them tastes the best, the winner is decided by the family cat. Which will he choose? The excited latkes can’t wait to find...
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DIJ — Do It Jewish: Use Your Jewish Creativity! by Barbara Bietz
Illustrator: Daria Grinevich It’s like a Jewish creativity mentor in a book! Learn from Jewish creativity mentors & use your own Jewish creativity in areas ranging from Jewish cooking to Jewish filmmaking.
Seven Days of Shiva: Forty-six years of puppy love by Marc Gellman
Seized with grief at the loss of his beloved and vibrant wife, Barbara, after a thirty-year battle with breast cancer, Marc Gellman does the only thing he finds he can do. He starts telling...
Thank You Modeh Ani by Rabbi Alyson Solomon
Illustrator: Bryony Clarkson Starting the day with gratitude is positive, and positively Jewish. Rabbi Alyson Solomon takes inspiration from two prayers traditionally recited each morning to create a joyful celebration of our bodies in...
Machseh Lajesoumim: A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890-1943 by Dr. Jaap Focke
The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old...
Sylvie by Sylvie Kantorovitz
In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a young artist finds her path apart from the expectations of those around her. Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the principal, and...
The 60 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2021
Here is the list of the 60 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October2021. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she’s hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her...
Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage: Performance, Memory, Affect by Remco Ensel
Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the...
The State of Israel vs. the Jews by Sylvain Cypel
Translator: William Rodarmor From an award-winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israel’s actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position....
