New Jewish Books
Hagaon Rav Avraham Hafuta has been a pioneer in the baal teshuva movement for over 50 years and has raised the spirits of thousands of people around the world with his uplifting torah insights....
This book is composted of fascinating vignettes of the community of Jews encountered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birthplace. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five,...
Lev Pearlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife Josephine and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev’s and Josephine’s viewpoints, Part I...
The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, offers a round-up of four episodes from Book Expo America 2014, featuring interviews with authors and publishers of Jewish books for kids, teens, and...
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but...
My Ukrainian Family’s Odyssey of Secrets, Love and Survival from Pre-War Odessa to the Promised Land and America Anna Aizic’s memoir in letters manages to transcend numerous potential hazards of the form to engage...
Jessamyn Hope’s Safekeeping is a profound and moving novel about love, the inevitability of loss, and the courage it takes to keep starting over. It’s 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York...
From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman—the daughter of Holocaust survivors—who travels to Russia shortly after the fall of communism,...
Written by Rabbi Sharon G. Forman Illustrated by Lisa J. Teitelbaum By holding up the Exodus story next to the concept of a beloved national pastime, Rabbi Forman casts light on the Passover story...
Set in Miami Beach, Florida in 1972, the novel follows the Posner family, comprised of Holocaust survivors Sophie and Jacob, and their son Adam. The Posners do everything they can to avoid one another...
