Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer
The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know...
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The Lines We Draw by Tim Franks
The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity Tim Franks spent years as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a...
The Remembering Candle by Alison Goldberg
Illustrator: Selina Alko I was sad when Grandpa died. I think about how sad Mom was too.Mom says she misses Grandpa, but all her memories are like shining lights. Grandpa died last November. Now,...
The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir by Rachel Tzvia Back
The Dark-Robed Mother is a striking blend of memoir and poetry, grappling with a cyclical “high-functioning” depression and its profound impact on self and family. It is also a modern descent into the underworld, reckoning...
Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation by Michael Lowenthal
A queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home. Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met...
This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman
Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored....
The Whole Mishpocha: New and Selected Jewish Poems, 1998 – 2023 by Philip Terman
it’s the Sabbath … // and my own child is sifting sand from sand on a summer morning // so indescribably beautiful you can’t help but grieve The preciousness and resilience of Judaism lies...
One Day: A True Story of Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Rosen, Benjamin Phillips
From an eminent storyteller, this powerful, simply told, beautifully illustrated picture book recounts a rare story of survival during the Holocaust. One day, a Hungarian-French Jew and his father were rounded up by Nazis...
Hallelujah: The Story of Leonard Cohen by Alicia Jo Rabins
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....
Sam and Charlie (and Sam Too!) Shake Up Shabbat by Leslie Kimmelman
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...
