Yes, We’ll Do It! by Dafna Strum
Illustrator: Shahar Kober A joyful, rhyming tale of kindness and community! When two kids join a parade, a chain of helpers steps up in their place. Based on a Jewish teaching about responsibility, this...
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Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West by Josh Hammer
A next-generation manifesto declaring that the fate of Western civilization depends on the security and thriving of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel—that the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their...
The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War by Shay A. Pilnik
The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, making this area one of the most infamous mass murder sites...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature by Miriam Udel
How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung...
Five Amber Beads by Richard Aronowitz
New Jewish Fiction Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Charley Bernstein works in the London art...
Found and Lost: The Jake and Cait Story by Howard Lovy
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...
Farewell Atlantis: Recollections by Valentīna Freimane
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...
Yael and Her Special Friend by Malky Weinstock
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...
Unlikely Story by Ali Rosen
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...
The Light Keeper by Karen Levine, Sheila Baslaw
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...
