Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse. Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s...
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Gottika by Helaine Becker
Illustrator: Vero Navarro 12-year-old Dany lives with his father, the scholarly Rob Judah, and his silent mother Rachel in the Stoon ghetto on the outskirts of Gottika. Under the ruthless Count Pol, the Stoon...
Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick
From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of...
From Darkness to Light: Testimonies of Six Holocaust Survivors by Ronald J. Diller
From Darkness to Light is a compilation of personal testimonies of six Holocaust survivors, written in a short story format. The book walks readers through their life experiences before and during the Holocaust, their...
The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness by Andrei S. Markovits
This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration...
DIJ — Do It Jewish: Use Your Jewish Creativity! by Barbara Bietz
Illustrator: Daria Grinevich It’s like a Jewish creativity mentor in a book! Learn from Jewish creativity mentors & use your own Jewish creativity in areas ranging from Jewish cooking to Jewish filmmaking.
Sylvie by Sylvie Kantorovitz
In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a young artist finds her path apart from the expectations of those around her. Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the principal, and...
Falik and His House by Jacob Dinezon
Translator: Mindy Liberman Jacob Dinezon’s novella Falik and His House, originally published in Yiddish in 1904 and translated into English for the first time by Mindy Liberman, tells the story of an elderly tailor...
Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving by Merissa Nathan Gerson
Though at times it may seem impossible, we can heal with help from our friends and community– if we know how to ask. This heartrending, relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss is...
What We’re Scared Of by Keren David
Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn’t be more different.Evie’s sharp and funny. Lottie’s a day-dreamer. Evie’s the fighter, Lottie’s the peace-maker. What they do have in common is their Jewishness –...
