Jewish Books and Literature

Online bookstore with 100,000+ titles including over 5,000 on Judaica. Our mission is to assist service organizations within the Jewish community in generating revenue for their cause.

How Shall We Sing?: A Mediterranean Journey Through A Jewish Family, by Aline Pnina Tayar, published by Pan Macmillan/Picador Australian and available through Amazon.com or directly from the author. The book gathers together the stories of a large Sephardic family scattered throughout the Mediterranean.

Mona Yahia won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate prize for Fiction for her book, which focuses on the Iraqi Jewish community in Baghdad during the 1960's.

A new novel that is filled with tears and (paradoxically) laughter, flashing from the devastation of the Holocaust to the light-heartedness of modern day, and the secret of how these worlds come together.

"Mother of the Pound" is a fascinating tale of survival and triumph Dr. Kazzaz's retelling of the experience of the Iraqi Jewish community, combined with his insights into the psychology of Jewish survival, makes for an important contribution to our literature.

Large selection of Jewish secular and religious books, tapes, videos, PC programs, and religious articles in every language.

My Shoshana: A Father's Journey Through Loss,' a miniature book by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, published by Anna Olswanger Books. Anna Olswanger Books publishes and promotes books and articles of Jewish interest for readers, booksellers and librarians, authors and illustrators. The site links to Jewish fiction, Jewish book publishing news, and interviews with industry professionals.

The Kabbalah has been transmitted orally from masters to disciples since the days of the prophets and recorded in such seminal works as the Book of Splendor (Sepher Ha Zohar) and the Book of Creation (Sepher Ha-Yetzira). Best-selling author and professor Marc-Alain Ouaknin has written a lively text that clearly introduces Kabbalah--the mystical and secret and often baffling tradition of Judaism. In Mysteries of the Kabbalah he explains the ancient myths and symbols that have so profoundly influenced both the

The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, which coordinated the recent international Jewish writers conference in Northern California ("Writing the Jewish Future: A Global Conversation"), is continuing this extraordinary discussion through a special site dedicated to Jewish literature.

Nettie Parker’s Backyard is a WWII historical-fiction novel for 4th-6th graders. The book tackles important lessons against bullying and intolerance toward race, religion, and the physically challenged. To keep readers captivated, themes are woven into the story with ribbons of mystery and mysticism. Nettie, always magical and compassionate, cares for eight Jewish refugee children, proving love the greatest force in a surprise ending.

Bircon from Israel with meanings photographically illustrated enhancing kavanah in Jewish prayer Judaica for Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah or wedding with Birkat Hamazon through zmirot.

This is a collection of Chassidic stories chosen and retold for their educational and spiritual value.

Under the title Noten Ta'am Leshevach, Rav Dr. Shemuel Di Segni has compiled and presented, in an innovative yet scholarly manner, the attempts by the leading rabbinic personalities to explain the underlying rationale and purpose for many of the dietary laws found in the Torah.

The books of Albert Cohen

Chicken Soup with Chopsticks: A Jew's Struggle for Truth in an Interfaith Relationship