This list of books with Jewish main characters will help you discover exceptional picture books and middle grade books with ...

A century ago, Fanny Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant working as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, noticed Jewish visitors rarely checked out books about their own culture. With her ...

The censorship of Hebrew books has a long and interesting history, though the methods and motives for the censorship was not always the same. Censorship in Russia of Jewish books began in the late 18 ...

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap. In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call ...

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl discusses her new book at the opening of the Jewish Book and Arts Festival opening night. Credit: Mark Katz Already on the New York Times Best Seller list, Angela Buchdahl’s new ...

An ancient Jewish text has been discovered and returned 80 years after it was looted from a Hungarian seminary during the occupation of the Nazis in 1944. An announcement by the U.S. Attorney's Office ...

(JTA) — In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim, ...

In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The Source” by James Michener, “Exodus” by Leon Uris, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, ...

Enter to win a copy of Helene Wecker’s debut novel “The Golem and the Jinni” here. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author ...