Famed author and children’s book editor Arthur Levine asks, “Why do Jewish children receive gifts on Hanukkah?”

A welcome and important addition to any home or school library, wonderfully translated and impeccably edited anthology of almost 50 Yiddish tales.

What would the holiday of light be without picture books replete with humor, puns and even dragons?

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jonathan Kaufman traces the tumultuous history and glamorous lives of two powerful Iraqi Jewish dynasties.

If To the Edge of Sorrow, in Stuart Schoffman’s masterful translation, is not Aharon Appelfeld’s best and most accessible novel, it is certainly among his top three.

Judging by The Lost Shtetl, his brilliant debut novel, author Max Gross is the metaphysical love child of Sholem Aleichem and J.K. Rowling.

Years after her conversion from Catholicism to Judaism, Genie Milgrom discovered documents linking the family to a crypto-Jewish heritage in medieval Spain.

If you love potato breads, you'll go crazy for these Thanksgiving-ready Pumpkin Rolls. Also for the holiday, try Sage Corn Muffins and Orange and Cranberry Cornbread.