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Pirkei Avot (“Chapters of the Fathers”) is Judaism’s oldest and most important compilation of rabbinic ethical teachings. In this volume, Jessica Tamar Deutsch has woven the entirety of the work (translated into English) through more than 120 pages of illustration. The book is meant for everyone: kids, teens, and adults. It can be read, studied,…
Growing up in London in the 1970s, there’s a lot that Louise doesn’t know about her family. Her parents and grandmother fled Iraq forty years ago, but no one will tell her why. She gets her answers when a magical cloak–an abaya–transports Louise back in time to her mother’s childhood. In the 1930s, Flora is…
Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japanese neighbors while they’re incarcerated during World War II. Winner, Best in Young Adult Non-Fiction from the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards “A powerful book about advocating for friends and neighbors during times of great division.” –Kazu Kibuishi, #1…
A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman–the hidden matzah required to end the meal–and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated…
In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. When young Rolando Perez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New…
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner National Jewish Book Award finalist Neal Shusterman, Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andrés Vera MartÃnez present a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope. Courage to Dream plunges readers into the Holocaust…
WINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE – Available for the first time in English: a moving and masterful graphic memoir exploring one woman’s search for identity as she slowly uncovers the truth of how her Jewish relatives “disappeared” during World War II. Told through a genre-defying blend of illustrations, photography, and found objects, Remember…
In Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, underground cartoonist, fine artist, and muralist Barbara “Willy” Mendes chronicles women creators’ psychedelic journey through Biblical tableaux, modern life, and into a fantastical, interstellar future, weaving in her own intimate stories of being an artist, mother, and grandmother, especially in the never-before-published third volume. Inspired by Jewish mysticism, Mendes…
In Pekar’s final memoir, he recounts the entire history of the Jews to explain how he lost his faith in the state of Israel. Pekar grew up a staunch supporter of the Jewish state, but as he became older he confronted more and more questions his parents couldn’t answer.
Comics in the 1950s is a nowhere medium for journeymen and artistically frustrated illustrators. Certainly that’s what Bernie Krigstein –a comics artist and out-of-step painter slumming in the sleazy comics industry to make ends meet– thinks. What starts as an escape attempt from the rut of cranking out comics takes successive leaps into tales of…
The haunting testimony of Holocaust survivor Emmie Arbel: arrested, deported, and imprisoned at the age of five, and of the inspirational life she built in its aftermath. Arrested with her family in the Netherlands, deported by the Nazis to Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, and orphaned–all by the age of seven–Emmie Arbel survived the camps, only to…
Karen Bermann grew up in the mad orbit of her father, Fritz, the rebellious child of a Viennese Orthodox Jewish family who fled Europe alone as an adolescent in the late 1930s. An irreverent, comic, rageful man with three names, who spoke three languages, lived on three continents, and always kept his papers in order,…
Yeah, I’m Jewish is Katalina’s first Jewish-themed book-written for children who are just starting to understand what it means to carry identity in a world that sometimes makes that complicated. It’s a story she felt needed to exist-for Jewish children growing up in today’s world, and for the conversations that often don’t happen, but should……..
Meet Alex Mayhem – a wildly imaginative, not-so-average kid growing up in the magical, mysterious, and sometimes downright bonkers city of Manhattan. Oh, and his best buddy? His talking kippah. (Yep, that’s right – a tiny, rimless hat with plenty to say!) Alex’s brain is bursting with ideas, inventions, and daydreams that turn ordinary days…
Hour of Need is a graphic novel telling the true story of the resistance to Nazi rule in Denmark during World War II and the heroes that saved the Danish Jews by helping them evacuate to Sweden. In the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, legend had it that should danger ever come to Denmark, the…
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