The Lost Spy and the Green Dress by Alex Paz-Goldman
For twelve year-old Motti, growing up in Israel in the 1960s, the world is full of mysteries to be solved, while his town is full of spies to be caught. His parents are Holocaust...
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Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack
Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness—even facing the Angel of Death himself. From Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award finalist Sofiya Pasternack. Pesah has...
Beni’s Tiny Tales: Around the Year in Jewish Holidays by Jane Breskin Zalben
Join Beni and his family as they celebrate a year in Jewish Holidays, including all their favorite craft activities, recipes, songs, and stories for each occasion. The perfect gift book that gives all year...
The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein
In The Vegan, Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we’ll go to be good. Herschel Caine is a soon-to-be master of the universe....
The Giving Table by Naomi Ross
Welcome to a delicious celebration of our most inspired cooking…the food we share! Food writer and veteran culinary educator Naomi Ross teaches us how to master the basics of home cooking. Savor morsels of...
Nothing Could Stop Her by Rona Arato
The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber Illustrator: Isabel Muñoz Ruth Gruber didn’t want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Born to a Jewish American family in 1911,...
Funny, You Don’t Look Funny by Jennifer Caplan
Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more...
Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s by Bernard Malamud
The long-awaited third and final volume of Library of America’s edition of Bernard Malamud’s writings brings together three novels and thirteen stories of the 1970s and 80s that reaffirm his place in the American...
Professor Schiff’s Guilt by Agur Schiff
Translator: Jessica Cohen A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a...
How to Become an American by Daniel Wolff
A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness An odyssey from pre–Civil War Charleston to post–World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants’ eyes The histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in...
