Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed: A Nov­el by Ayelet Tsabari

“Tsabari ele­gant­ly weaves togeth­er two sto­ry­lines, the first of which is set in the over­crowd­ed squalor of an immi­grant camp in the ear­ly years of Israeli state­hood.” ‑Ranen Omer-Sherman

Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith, Iden­ti­ty, and Belong­ing by Angela Buchdahl

“The daugh­ter of a Kore­an Bud­dhist moth­er and an Amer­i­can Jew­ish father, Buch­dahl traces the many twists and turns she took to find her way to becom­ing the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue, one of the most promi­nent and inno­v­a­tive Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties in the Unit­ed States.” ‑Marc Katz

Sis­ters of For­tune by Esther Chehebar

“While Austen’s com­e­dy of man­ners fol­lowed the for­tunes of the five Ben­net sis­ters in rur­al Eng­land at the turn of the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, Chehe­bar sets hers in the gos­sipy, tight-knit Syr­i­an Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in Brook­lyn in the ear­ly 2000s, where the three Cohen sis­ters — Nina, For­tune, and Lucy — are wrestling with a lot of momen­tous deci­sions.” ‑Ann Levin

Hunt­ing in Amer­i­ca by Tehi­la Haki­mi, trans­lat­ed by Joan­na Chen

“With restrained and beau­ti­ful prose, Haki­mi spins an intox­i­cat­ing­ly strange tale about an Israeli woman relo­cat­ing to Amer­i­ca, learn­ing to hunt, and pos­si­bly los­ing her grasp on real­i­ty.” ‑Anna Stol­ley Persky

As a Jew: Reclaim­ing Our Sto­ry From Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us by Sarah Hurwitz

“As a Jew by Sarah Hur­witz dis­tin­guish­es itself as one of the more acces­si­ble books on the top­ic of anti­semitism in recent years. It is straight­for­ward with­out los­ing nuance, his­tor­i­cal while still feel­ing very of the moment, and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly per­son­al yet able to touch read­ers with diverse back­grounds.” ‑Marc Katz

We Would Nev­er by Tova Mirvis

“Inspired by a true scan­dal, Tova Mirvis’ lat­est nov­el reveals how a con­tentious divorce spi­rals into a night­mar­ish mur­der case.” ‑Daniel­la Wexler

Sons and Daugh­ters by Chaim Grade, trans­lat­ed by Rose Waldman

“This book, orig­i­nal­ly seri­al­ized in Yid­dish-lan­guage news­pa­pers in the 1960s and 1970s — now trans­lat­ed for the first time by Rose Wald­man— intro­duces us to a dis­tressed Rab­bi Sholem Shachne Katzenel­len­bo­gen: his five chil­dren have all strayed from a pious path and bring him very lit­tle nachas.” ‑Isado­ra Kianovsky

Mrs. Lilien­blum’s Cloud Fac­to­ry by Iddo Gefen, trans­lat­ed by Daniel­la Zamir

“Mrs. Lilien­blum’s Cloud Fac­to­ry is writ­ten in a more com­ic vein than his pre­vi­ous work, and the high­ly enter­tain­ing result is an exquis­ite blend of endear­ing por­traits of a tight­ly knit fam­i­ly and their hard­scrab­ble com­mu­ni­ty, togeth­er with acer­bic and some­times affec­tion­ate satire of peo­ple dri­ven to high-tech hys­te­ria, phish­ing scams, faux-phil­an­thropy, cli­mate manip­u­la­tion, roman­tic love, and ulti­mate­ly humanity’s eter­nal pen­chant for delu­sion.” ‑Ranen Omer-Sherman

The Anato­my of Exile by Zee­va Bukai

“In her tremen­dous, trans­port­ing debut, The Anato­my of Exile, Zee­va Bukai demon­strates the unique pow­er of lit­er­a­ture to tran­scend bor­ders, exca­vate our shared human­i­ty, and per­haps even heal.” ‑Sara Lippmann

The Safe­keep by Yael van der Wouden

“Set in the Nether­lands in 1961, The Safe­keep opens with the pro­tag­o­nist, Isabel, try­ing to con­vince her broth­er, Hen­drik, that Neelke the maid might be steal­ing.” ‑Julie R. Enszer