New Jewish Books
A captivating tour through Rome’s centuries-old Jewish community with more than 100 simple, deeply flavorful, vegetable-forward recipes. “Naming the book Portico is my way of saying, ‘Welcome. I’m glad you are here.’” A leading...
In The Vegan, Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we’ll go to be good. Herschel Caine is a soon-to-be master of the universe....
A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the...
Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina Foreword: Marcie Cohen Ferris A poignant―and delicious―compendium of South Carolina Jewish life revealed through food and story Where people go, so goes their food....
Welcome to a delicious celebration of our most inspired cooking…the food we share! Food writer and veteran culinary educator Naomi Ross teaches us how to master the basics of home cooking. Savor morsels of...
The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past In 1785, when the...
Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love… Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love...
The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber Illustrator: Isabel Muñoz Ruth Gruber didn’t want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Born to a Jewish American family in 1911,...
The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was...
A completely gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical novel Holding the faded postcard in her trembling hands, Mia begins to read the one story her grandmother could never tell her, revealing a secret...
