Jewish American Heritage Month

Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is an annual recognition and celebration of Jewish American achievements in and contributions to the United States of America. Each year, this national celebration shows the ways in which this history deserves our collective attention, pride, and recognition. In 2006, President George W. Bush first proclaimed the month of May as a time to recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to America and the American culture. Congress issued a Concurrent Resolution at the same time. Every American President since that time has signed a Proclamation calling on government entities as well as people of the United States to observe JAHM. For more information, visit the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), home of Jewish American History Month coalition: https://www.nmajh.org/jewish-american-heritage-month/

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Kids

My Name Is Aviva by Lesléa Newman (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla Read-Along eBook)
Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup by Pamela Mayer (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook)
Mitzvah Pizza by Sarah Lynn Scheerger (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla Read-Along eBook)
Hannah's Way by Linda Glaser (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla Read-Along eBook)
Judah Touro Didn't Want to Be Famous by Audrey Ades (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook)
Refugee by Alan Gratz (Book, Audiobook on CD, Overdrive eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook)
Not Your All-American Girl by Madelyn Rosenberg (Book, Hoopla eAudiobook)
White Bird : A Wonder Story by R.J. Palacio (Book, Overdrive eBook)
Here Is the World : A Year of Jewish Holidays by Lesléa Newman (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Write on, Irving Berlin! by Leslie Kimmelman (Book, Hoopla eBook)

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Teens

It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and other Jewish Stories by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman (Book)
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper (Book)
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli (Book, Hoopla eAudioBook)
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (Book)
Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army (Book, Hoopla eAudioBook)
The Calculus of Change by Jessie Hilb (Book)
Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali (Book)
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe (Book, Hoopla eAudioBook)
Flying Couch by Amy Kurzweil (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudioBook)

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Adults

Guesthouse for Ganesha by Judith Teitelman (Book)
Adults and Other Children by Miriam Cohen (Hoopla eBook)
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Warner Bros: The making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson (Book)
Children of the Stars by Mario Escobar (Book)
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Apelfeld (Book)
The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner (Book)
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman (Book, Audiobook on CD, Large Print Book)
Einstein and the Rbbi: Searching for the Soul by Naomi Levy (Book)