Jewish American Heritage Month Booklist
May is Jewish American Heritage Month -- a time to pay tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who helped form the fabric of American history, culture, and society. We've compiled a booklist by and about Jewish Americans for all ages!
Click on a title to find it in our catalog; and find many more titles at cobbcat.org.
Children's Picture Books
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins
The Always Prayer Shawl by Sheldon Oberman
Bagels From Benny by Aubrey Davis
Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale by Barbara Diamond Goldin
Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year by Eric A. Kimmel
Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story by Lesléa Newman
It Could Always Be Worse adapted by Margot Zemach
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat adapted by Simms Taback
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Children’s Nonfiction
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson
Boy from Buchenwald by Robert Waisman
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
All Three Stooges by Erica Perl
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Blood Lie by Shirley Reva Vernick
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson Levine
Eddie Whatever by Lois Ruby
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron
The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family by Sarah Kapit
My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula J. Freedman
Not Your All-American Girl by Madelyn Rosenberg
Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
Camp by L.C. Rosen
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum
It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories by Katherine Locke
Like No Other by Una LaMarche
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz
Strange Creatures by Phoebe North
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare (comes out in October)
This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
Wide Awake by David Levithan
You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
Adult Fiction
All Other Nights by Dara Horn
Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine
The Middlesteins by Janni Attenberg
Nemesis by Philip Roth
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
The World and All It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
Adult Nonfiction
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela S. Nadell
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish edited by Ilan Stavans
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Night by Elie Wiesel
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn