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Jewish American Heritage: Recent Highlights for Adults (May 2025)

In observance of Jewish American Heritage Month and in service of reading suggestions all year round, we've compiled this list of recent notable books, both fiction and nonfiction.

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47 items

  • Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. — FIC KERET
  • Bad Jew

    a Family's Quest From the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel

    Smolar, Piotr,
    Paperback, 2024New York : Other Press, [2024] — DS135.F9S66 2024
  • Cellar Rat

    My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

    Selinger, Hannah,
    Book, 2025New York : Litle, Brown and Company, 2025. — TX910.5.S373A3 2025
  • Book, 2025New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, [2025] — F264.F28C67 2025
  • Eight Very Bad Nights

    a Collection of Hanukkah Noir

    Book, 2024New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2024] — FIC EIGHT VE
  • Eminent Jews

    Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

    Denby, David, 1943-
    Book, 2025New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. — E184.36.I58D46 2025
  • Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — PS3601.U85Z46 2024
  • Paperback, 2025[Brooklyn, NY] : Melville House, [2025] — FIC STERN
  • Gursha

    Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens From Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond

    Barhany, Beejhy,
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — TX725.E84B37 2025
  • Heavyweight

    a Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory

    Brager, Solomon J.,
    Paperback, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow & Company, [2024] — D804.195.B73 2024
  • Book, 2024[New York, N.Y.] : Artisan Books, [2024] — PN6268.J4S37 2024
  • Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2024] — FIC KANDER
  • Book, 2024New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. — ML423.G334O94 2024
  • It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time

    the Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

    Vilanch, Bruce,
    Book, 2025Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2025. — PN1992.3.U5V56 2025
  • Book, 2024New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024. — BM750.G4945 2024
  • Book, 2024Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, [2024] — ML419.G22A3 2024