New Jewish Books
New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor–winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg’s life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she’s forced to grapple with...
A Jake McGreevy Novel How do a baking contest and a mission from World War II combine? With a whisk . . . and some risk! The wit and charm of The Great British...
The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America’s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that...
Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa’s bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge...
What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud. Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around...
How Jews Made the Art World Modern The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become...
Uncovering My Father’s Holocaust Secrets What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or...
Translator: Bill Nagelkerke Jeska doesn’t know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What...
A shy seventh grader learns to step into the spotlight in this heartwarming middle-grade novel by acclaimed author, Diana Harmon Asher Shira Gordon is painfully shy. She rarely speaks and blushes at everything. And...
Translator: Shira AtikIllustrator: Menahem Halberstadt Baltosar lives in a giant fortress in the town of Zakrobat. Despite owning thirteen boxes of gold, he prides himself on how frugally he lives. Yosef, Baltosar’s neighbour, is...
