New Jewish Books
Bestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fissionAs a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for...
She’s an iconic Jewish storyteller. She’s a widely acclaimed professor and folklorist. She’s the one and only Peninnah Schram, and Peninnah’s World: A Jewish Life in Stories is her authorized biography, told through individual...
Lauded by the New Yorker as one of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” this comprehensive biography establishes Florine Stettheimer as one of the most innovative artists of the early twentieth century. Florine...
How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs Illustrator: Susan Gal A moving biography of the woman who created The Tower of Life, a powerful exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum...
Ancient Jewish Wisdom for New Parents New parents get overwhelmed, regularly pushed to their limits and confused by contradictory feelings of elation and near-despair. To soothe the frazzled and lift their spirits, writer and...
Illustrator: Katherine Messenger Take a fresh look at the Bible stories you think you know, retold using the Jewish concept of midrash. Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Moses. We think we know their...
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn...
One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally...
A young woman has one month and a closetful of shoes to discover the future she thought she’d lost in this captivating new novel from the author of Eliza Starts a Rumor and Nine...
“How many lives can you imagine yourself living?” So Hannah Larson wonders. When a close relative falls ill, Hannah and her young son, Nicky, decide to join him for the summer at Ashton Hall,...
