Our Jewish Emotional Support Books

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    🕮    At the Association of Jewish Libraries 2024 annual conference in San Diego, CA, I met up with Sheryl Stahl, host of our sister podcast, Nice Jewish Books. Inspired by the cartoon above, Sheryl and I interviewed our friends and colleagues about their Jewish "emotional support books" and the results turned into this podcast episode (cross-posted on Nice Jewish Books). We got a very wide variety responses, listed below in case you'd like to read any of the books that are so meaningful to your fellow Jewish book-lovers.


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OUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT BOOKS

Sheryl Stahl: He, She, and It by Marge Piercy Buy | Borrow

Heidi Rabinowitz: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb Buy | Borrow

Heidi Rabinowitz: Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman Buy | Borrow

Dara Henry: On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories ed. by Chris Baron, Joshua Levy, and Naomi Milliner Buy | Borrow

A.R. Vishny: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Buy | Borrow

David Schlitt: Teitelbaum's Window by Wallace Markfield Buy | Borrow

Sally Wiener Grotta: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Buy | Borrow

Sally Wiener Grotta: The Golden Dreidel by Ellen Kushner Buy | Borrow

Lies Meerboom: The Promise by Chaim Potok Buy | Borrow

Aden Polydoros: A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft Buy | Borrow

Rivka Yerushalmi: What a Beautiful Morning by Arthur A. Levine Buy | Borrow

Sidura Ludwig: Starry Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume Buy | Borrow

Elysa Keshen: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel Buy | Borrow

Susan Dubin: Sisters at Sinai by Jill Hammer and other books about women in the Bible Buy | Borrow

Richard Ho: Happy Hanukkah, Curious George by H.A. Rey Buy | Borrow

Shoshana Traum: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King Buy | Borrow

Shoshana Traum: Jewish Futures: Stories from the World's Oldest Diaspora by Michael A. Burstein Buy | Borrow

Henry Woodall: Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah Buy | Borrow

Dina Herbert: The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann. M. Martin Buy | Borrow

Olga Potap: the works of Sholem Aleichem Buy | Borrow

Daniel Scheide: the works of William Morris Buy |  Borrow

Jane Rothstein: All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor Buy | Borrow

Sally Stieglitz: Sandwich by Catherine Newman Buy | Borrow

Michal Babay: the works of Harlan Coben Buy | Borrow

Xandra O'Neill: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen Buy | Borrow

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