This year, titles for children aged 8 and younger include outstanding stories about Jewish music, traditions and history—as well as a picture book on Henrietta Szold.

In Three Sisters, the harrowing plight of the protagonists takes readers on an emotional roller coaster.

We highlight female authors whose work brings insight into topics important to our world and our readers.

Influential Jewish texts of this generation.

"Jews remember! Jews write!” These were the dying words of Simon Dubnow, the great Jewish historian, murdered by a Gestapo officer on a Riga street in 1941.

As we all wave goodbye to 2020, here are the standout books, both fiction and nonfiction and in a variety of genres.

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