New Jewish Books
The author of Escape to Florence returns with a thrilling adventure set in the war-torn 1940s and inspired by true events, about a young woman who risks everything to help Jewish Italians flee the fascists, and...
A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life. When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as...
This picture book shares the story of dyslexic Jewish basketball star Tamir Goodman’s successes as player and coach.
This is a book of elegies, meditations, and dreams. It’s a book about connections and disruptions. It’s a book about time, how quickly it slips through our fingers and how it never ends. In...
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture—its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics—from...
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his...
A Psychological Spy Novel About Two Women on Opposite Sides of Deception Translated by Dalit Shmueli What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past? Set deep...
Illustrated by Pedro Rodríguez The true story of the lifelong friendship between President Harry Truman and salesman Eddie Jacobson and its impact on the founding of Israel. This 48-page early chapter book biography for...
In Zaidy’s Band, Aron Heller chronicles his extensive journey with his grandfather Mickey Heller — his Zaidy — to uncover Mickey’s mysterious wartime past and the untold stories of his Jewish Canadian band of...
Both a love letter to America and a stirring rallying cry for the country to live up to the ideals on which it was founded, this propulsive biography from National Book Award Finalist and...
