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Honouring Jewish Heritage Month

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May is Jewish Heritage Month in Canada and is also recognized in other countries around the world. We are honouring and celebrating Jewish authors, customs and traditions with these recommended reads.

Adult/Teen

  • What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?
    by Michal Oshman
  • The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
    by Joshua Cohen
  • Send For Me
    by Lauren Fox
  • Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
    by Gary Barwin
  • Yes No Maybe So
    by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed
  • Not One of These Poems is About You
    by Teva Harrison
  • The Octopus Has Three Hearts
    by Rachel Rose
  • Jewish Holiday Baking
    by Uri Scheft

Children

  • A Hat for Mrs. Goldman
    by Michelle Edwards
  • I Love You More
    by Emil Sher
  • The Welcome Chair
    by Rosemary Wells
  • Sylvie
    by Sylvie Kantorovitz
  • The Sun Will Come Out by Joanne Levy
  • My First Jewish Baby Book
    by Julie Merberg
  • Broken Strings
    by Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer
  • Here is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays
    by Leslea Newman

For more information about Jewish Heritage Month in Canada, visit https://jewishheritage.ca/.