Helmi’s Shadow by David Horgan
A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West Helmi’s Shadow tells the sweeping true story of two Russian Jewish refugees, a mother (Rachel Koskin) and her daughter (Helmi). With...
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Is Superman Circumcised? by Roy Schwartz
The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero SUPERMAN is the most famous character in the world. He’s the first superhero, an American icon—and he’s Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of...
Mighty Inside by Sundee T. Frazier
Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants—especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought...
Sammy Spider’s First ABC by Sylvia A. Rouss
Illustrator: Katherine Janus Kahn Sammy Spider goes through the English alphabet using the Jewish holidays and traditions celebrated by the Shapiro family. With its sweet rhymes and iconic illustrations, this book is a fun...
Yossel’s Journey by Kathryn Lasky
Illustrator: Johnson Yazzie When Yossel’s family flees anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia and immigrates to the American Southwest, he worries about making a new home and new friends. In his family’s new store next to...
The Desert Unicorn by Bonnie Grubman, Kerry Olitzky
Illustrator: Amberin Huq As the Israelites journey to the Promised Land a unicorn brings joy and inspiration to the children. This story draws from the rabbinic understanding of tachash a mysterious creature named in...
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias,...
Pretend Plumber: An Adventure by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Sarassine Anfang is a precocious, queer-curious Los Angeles teen, who grows so fed up with her wealthy, dysfunctional Jewish Hancock Park family that she decides to run away to her grandfather’s Wilshire condo, and...
Love by Maayan Eitan
An incendiary tale of sex work from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novel about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification...
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman by Hannah Arendt
Translator: Clara Winston and Richard Winston Introduction: Barbara Hahn A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one...
