Owls” was one of a trio of books that took top prizes at the Sydney Taylor Book Awards for Jewish children’s books.

This list of books with Jewish main characters will help you discover exceptional picture books and middle grade books with compelling writing, intriguing stories, and memorable characters.

Let’s dive in. Once you start seeking out Holocaust fiction, you see it everywhere. However, as Jewish Book Council editorial director Becca Kantor explained, the amount of Holocaust fiction ...

True to the diversity of Spinoza’s Jewish reception, it features a mix of genres, from philosophical criticism to historical fiction, tributes to diary entries and even visual representations.

It also won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for fiction. Tremain, who lives in Norfolk, England, is the author of 14 novels and five short story collections. “The Gustav Sonata” is her ...

The award honors unpublished manuscripts of Jewish fiction targeting ages 8-13 ... Earlier it won a National Jewish Book Award in the young adult category. Other Jewish children’s books to ...

Dapim: Studies in the Holocaust 33 (2020): 37-62 [in Hebrew] "The Rise of Gitl Podkovnik: Rereading Abraham Cahan’s Yekl through the Lens of its Heroine," Studies in American Jewish Literature 39.2 ...

There is no scarcity of books about Jews in English literature ... From Shylock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction, no one had bothered to ask the important questions: why the ...

a family drama that draws on her Yemeni Jewish background. The Hebrew Fiction in Translation award went to Maya Arad for her book The Hebrew Teacher, translated by Jessica Cohen. The collection of ...