New Jewish Books
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de...
Illustrator: Carmel Ben AmiTranslator: Ilana Kurshan It’s the first night of Hanukkah and Uri’s dad is still not home. “What happened to Dad? Is he caught in the fray? Could it be that an...
A vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—that “has the ring of truth and...
Thoughts on “The Council of Wise Women” (The Village Life) by Izzy Abrahmson It made me laugh, it made me sad because of missed opportunities, and it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside....
How the World’s Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds A fascinating look into how Einstein’s genius and science continues to show up in so many facets of our everyday...
Rereading the Women of the Talmud Women in the Talmud are generally marginal and almost always anonymous – the daughters, sisters, and wives of prominent rabbis. The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic explores the...
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and...
Illustrator: Juliana Oakley Based on the true story of luthiers who repair Holocaust-era violins. Papa plays beautiful music on the violin, sometimes quick and lively and sometimes slow and sorrowful. But one night, there...
A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution–fighting for the Patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown–and in...
Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as...
