The season of gifting and eating is upon us. Celebrate with these recently published cookbooks and food memoirs, to feed your loved ones and your soul.

“My cooking comes from a deep well of Israeli hospitality,” Michael Solomonov writes in his new cookbook, “from the intimacy of sharing food.” This Hanukka, try out Solomonov’s…

Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have teamed up again for the second golem mystery. And novelist Ona Russell sets her historical whodunit in 1920s Los Angeles, among the Jewish…

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