New Jewish Books
In 1985, they met by chance. As a young guitarist and violinist, Jake and Cait created something transcendent each time they locked eyes and finished each other’s musical phrases…. until the music stopped. Forty...
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II Before the start of WWII, some 93,000 Jews lived in Latvia. Almost half of them, 43,000 people, resided in Riga. Only 14,000 survived WWII. Valentīna Freimane’s memoir Farewell...
Illustrator: Steve Pileggi Yael has a new neighbor! It’s Gila, a girl with Down syndrome. Join Yael as she befriends Gila and learns that Hashem makes each of us in our own special way...
From the author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a swoonworthy romance bursting with wit about a therapist who falls for the wrong man…but perhaps the right one was hiding in the margins all...
Illustration: Alice Priestley Shmuel is eager to help support his poor family, but no one in his shtetl is interested in hiring a ten-year-old boy. One day, the village installs new electric lamps, bringing...
An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry. In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it...
The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity Maria was eight months old in 1942 when a childless couple found her, wrapped in a blanket, at the...
The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Illustrator: Sally Deng The inspiring true story of how one visionary woman used children’s books to help heal a...
How adventurous Jewish women’s travels upended Jewish norms In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the bat mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter...
How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face...
