May is Jewish American Heritage Month!
We have curated a list of books for all ages to both celebrate and remember.
READ. LEARN. GROW.
A community that supports and respects each other creates citizens who inspire and support each other.
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To place holds from Bluffton Public Library, click on the links below. Note: This is not a complete list. Looking for more options or titles? Please explore the library catalog or request help from the library staff.
Picture Books
- A place at the table / Saadia Faruqi & Laura Shovan.
- Gershon's monster : a story for the Jewish New Year / retold by Eric A. Kimmel ; illustrated by Jon J Muth.
Juvenile Chapter Books
- Dreams in the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl / by Kathryn Lasky.
- Rachel's roses / by Ferida Wolff ; illustrated by Margeaux Lucas.
Juvenile Nonfiction
- The story of Anne Frank : a biography book for new readers / written by Emma Carlson Berne ; illustrated by Annita Soble.
- White bird / written and illustrated by R.J. Palacio ; inked by Kevin Czap.
- The book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come / written by Sue Macy ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst.
Young Adult
Adult
- Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / Dani Shapiro.
- This is my body : a memoir of religious and romantic obsession / Cameron Dezen Hammon.
- Moonglow / Michael Chabon.
- The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.
- The world that we knew / Alice Hoffman.
- Good riddance / Elinor Lipman.
- Button man / Andrew Gross.
- Mamaleh knows best : what Jewish mothers do to raise successful, creative, empathetic, independent children / Marjorie Ingall.
- The community table : recipes & stories from the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan & beyond / Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl, and Lisa Rotmil ; food photography by John Tavares.
- The woman with the blue star / Pam Jenoff.
- People of the book / Geraldine Brooks.
- Treyf : my life as an unorthodox outlaw / Elissa Altman.
- The plot against America / Philip Roth.
