The Golden Dreidel by Ellen Kushner
Illustrator: Kevin Keele Sara wishes her family celebrated Christmas or at least had one of the pretty trees she sees at her friends’ houses. But at her family’s big Chanukah party, mysterious guest Tante...
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Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving by Merissa Nathan Gerson
Though at times it may seem impossible, we can heal with help from our friends and community– if we know how to ask. This heartrending, relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss is...
Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th–19th centuries) by Richard G. Marks
Routledge Studies in Religion This book explores past expressions of the Jewish interest in Hinduism in order to learn what Hinduism has meant to Jews living mainly in the 12th through the 19th centuries....
Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow
Jewish Lives A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art Man Ray (1890–1976), a founding father of Dada and a...
Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes: In and Out of a Postwar Jewish Childhood by Annette Aronowicz
Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author’s growing up―from Poland to Belgium and from the East Coast to the West Coast of the...
What We’re Scared Of by Keren David
Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn’t be more different.Evie’s sharp and funny. Lottie’s a day-dreamer. Evie’s the fighter, Lottie’s the peace-maker. What they do have in common is their Jewishness –...
Recipe for Disaster by Aimee Lucido
Hannah Malfa-Adler is Jew . . . ish. Not that she really thinks about it. She’d prefer to focus on her favorite pastime: baking delicious food! But when her best friend has a beyond-awesome...
Hannah G. Solomon Dared to Make a Difference by Bonnie Lindauer
Illustrator: Sofia Moore When Hannah G. Solomon looked around Chicago, the city where she was born, she saw unfairness all around her. Many people were poor and living in terrible conditions. Immigrants from other...
The Merging of Two Oceans: Nine Talks on Sufism & Hasidism by Netanel Miles-Yépez
In The Merging of Two Oceans, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez follows his In the Teahouse of Experience with a new collection of talks, laying the foundations for understanding the historical and spiritual connections between Sufism...
The Soul of the Mishna by Yakov Nagen
As the foundational text of the Oral Torah, the Mishna is analyzed to understand Jewish law and the workings of the halakhic system. But, there is also an inner spirit to the work that...
