Kar-Ben Publisher’s new releases include charmingly told and illustrated books on themes designed to delight the youngest readers. Here is a sampling.

New titles of Jewish interest geared to young readers abound, ranging from intricately crafted graphic novels to engaging chapter books on varied and challenging topics.

To exploit people disfigured by birth or disabled by circumstance by putting them on display for thrill seekers seems politically incorrect today, but a century

The Secret Legacy of Biblical Women: Revealing the Divine Feminine by Melinda Ribner. (Self-published, 312 pp. $18 paper) In this startling and passionate book, Melinda

Almost 30 years ago, Simon Schama wrote that “all history tends towards autobiographical confession.” Now Schama ranges across lands and times and languages to confess through his own…

German sociologist and theoretician Theodor Adorno believed that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Brenda Webster, whose previous novels and translations give witness to both her narrative…

Love and Treasure: A Novel by Ayelet Waldman. (Knopf, 334 pp. $26.95) Salzberg, 1945. Salzberg, 1945. In the aftermath of World War II, American G.I.

The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman. (Scribner, 368 pp. $27.99) Two horrific disasters—the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 1911 that