Enthusiasts of literature geared to young readers from preschoolers to teens will have much to celebrate as they turn the pages of the newest publications.

Kaddish Poznan earns his living at night, scratching the names off tombstones at the behest of re­spect­able Jews who feel the need to pull up

It is not surprising that Marek Halter was drawn to write about the colorful but enigmatic historical figure of David Reubeni. Halter, a 71-year-old Polish

This Iraqi-born author fled the tyranny of his homeland as a young man, finding freedom of expression and opportunity abroad. “There is one question that

  Rashi and Ibn Ezra, make room.The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, newly pub­lished by Women of Reform Judaism and URJ Press, offers 1,400 pages of

Fiction 1940  by Jay Neugeboren. (Two Dollar Radio, 274 pp. $15) In his new novel, his first in over two decades, Jay Neugeboren has performed an

Perhaps no blow is as devastating to a parent as the death of a child. So when Lillian Leyb, the protagonist of Amy Bloom’s novel