Nonfiction FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman. (Harvard University Press, 433 pp. $29.95) One of the more contentious issues in Holocaust historiography

A panoramic view of Jewish culture through the ages and a deeply personal perspective of the way in which how one family relates to what

Fiction The Middlesteins: A Novel by Jami Attenberg. (Grand Central Publishing, 288 pp. $24.99 cloth, $15 paper) Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins: A Novel, has structured

Serach at the Seder: A Haggadah Supplement by Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum. (www.jewishspirit.com, 11 pp. $18) Have you heard of Serach bat Asher? Her name is mentioned

First Readers Lotsa Matzah by Tilda Balsey. Illustrated by Akemi Gutierrez. (Kar-Ben, 12 pp. $5.95) This simple rhyming board book sweetly tells how we left Egypt

FICTION The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories by Steve Stern. (Graywolf Press, 371 pp. $26) Steve Stern is a mischievous writer and The Book of

Mousterpiece by Jane Breskin Zalben (Roaring Brook/Macmillan) At first glance, nothing especially “Jewish” jumps out from the pages of Jane Breskin Zalben’s Mousterpiece a picture book dubbed a

The Lawgiver: A Novel by Herman Wouk. (Simon & Schuster, 256 pp. $25.99) Herman Wouk’s new novel, The Lawgiver, will not be ranked among his best but