New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Jennifer Naalchigar A clever story about two rival families and a Rosh Hashanah cake recipe. Saralee Siegel has a super nose she can smell things like no one’s business. Her Zadie says that...
Readers young and old will revel in the extraordinary, layered and artful images Koffsky has created for this lyrical story. It pairs each day of Creation with a color. On the first day, God...
Illustrator: Maya Shleifer Separated from her family, Ruthi struggles to find hope in this universal story of loss and love, by holding tight to a childhood promise.
How is a menorah made? Why does it have nine branches? What is Hanukkah, anyway? Meet the people who make different menorahs, and find out how an ancient Jewish tradition is celebrated. What are...
Illustrator: Bob McMahon It’s Hanukkah, and Hannah Hartman can’t stop Hiccupping! Her neighbors try to help by sharing their sometimes silly, always fun, remedies: “Drink pickle juice backwards,” says Mr. Brown, while Señora River...
One day, a kid arrives in America. Everything here is big, and crowded, and strange, and scary! He creates a golem, an old-country mud monster, to protect him from the kids next door. But...
Mark Simmons, illustrator; Ann D. Koffsky, editor This graphic novel-style autobiography for ages 8-12 depicts the ups and downs of Dr. Ruth’s life from her escape from the Nazis at age 10 aboard a...
Illustrator: Margeaux Lucas From a young age, Regina Jonas loved to read stories from the Bible. She loved to read Hebrew. She wanted to be a rabbi. There had never been a woman rabbi...
Illustrator: Inbal Gigi Bousidan When Mina s beloved Grandma dies, nothing feels right anymore. People come to visit. Mina just hides up in the big old oak tree. But the stories she hears about...
From the review: “Bubbe faces, Zayde faces, brother, sister, friendship faces, faces of all races and places, we are Jewish faces.” Debra Davick has adapted her simple poem from I Love Jewish Faces (URJ...
