Jew­ish Amer­i­can Her­itage Month 2023

May is Jew­ish Amer­i­can Her­itage Month! Jewish Book Council provides a read­ing list that high­lights and speaks to the Amer­i­can Jew­ish expe­ri­ence through­out history.

Updated April 4, 2023
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A beginner's guide to America : for the immigrant and the curious
H ?akka kiya n, Ru ?ya
Paper Book
A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's "love letter to the nation that took her in is also a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by...
Mahjong : a Chinese game and the making of modern American culture
Heinz, Annelise
Audiobook
Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s, incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime, Jewish American suburban mothers, and Air Force officers' wives in the postwar era. ...
Once we were slaves : the extraordinary journey of a multiracial Jewish family
Leibman, Laura Arnold
Ebook
Lincoln and the Jews : a history
Sarna, Jonathan D.
Ebook
One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the...
Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
Shapiro, Dani
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerIn the spring of 2016, a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis gave Dani Shapiro the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. Her entire history, the life she had lived, crumbled beneath her. Inheritance is a book...

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