News From the World of Jewish Books
Illustrator: Elizabeth Baddeley When Mouschi the cat goes with his boy, Peter, to a secret annex, he meets a girl named Anne. Bright, kind and loving, Anne dreams of freedom and of becoming a...
The world began when God said “Light,” And changed the world from dark to bright. Gentle rhyming couplets tell the story of how God created the world, describing six days of work fashioning everything...
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers...
A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi’s son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician,...
So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was “nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself.”...
The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in this emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that...
Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover...
This workbook for young teenagers is a step-by-step, interactive guide for budding Jewish genealogists. The authors, both avid genealogists, have written the book sequentially. Readers are first asked about family histories that they already...
My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing...
Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She… -Hacks the computer system at NYU to attend classes -Builds inventions to help the homeless -And talks to Albert Einstein! (Okay that’s just in her imagination)...
A Karakas Speaks by C.M. Kosemen
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker: My Father’s Holocaust Odyssey by Scott M. Neuman
Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Global Jewish Foodways: A History by Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto