New Jewish Books
Illustrated by Gene Pendon Writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins makes her picture book debut with this biography of Leonard Cohen and the creation of his masterpiece “Hallelujah” through continued persistence, belief, and dedication....
This book is a French Flap paperback not boardbook. Sam and Charlie (and Sam Too!) Shake Up Shabbat by Leslie Kimmelman, illus. by Mike Deas, continues the developing reader series of best friends Sam...
Illustrator: Moran Yogev Shoshi and her grandfather bring their coffee crop to the local market in Uganda. But will they get everything they need in time for Shabbat? A joyful celebration of the Abayudaya...
For fans of Hilma Wolitzer and Jhumpa Lahiri comes a collection of short stories about a mother and daughter as they navigate their changing roles through tumultuous times. Following a Jewish family from before...
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star’s career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen’s did. Cohen’s popularity is still growing...
The “exhilarating” (The Boston Globe) story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in...
At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The...
From BernBaum’s, the beloved downtown Fargo bagel shop and restaurant, comes a gorgeous, down-to-earth cookbook filled with rustic, hearty Jewish-Scandinavian recipes. Since its closure in 2024, BernBaum’s has left a bagel-shaped hole in Fargo,...
A coming-of-age novel that takes us from a very tall boy’s discovery of his love of basketball to a young man who engages in point-shaving while a college player on his way to NBA...
Translated by Jessie Mendez Sayer A bracing novel that asks how far we would go for the ones we love―and what we would do to destroy the ones we hate Lisa has lost custody...
