Museum of Jewish Heritage Presents the 5th Annual New York Jewish Book Festival

(New York, N.Y.)—The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will present the fifth annual New York Jewish Book Festival on Sunday, November 15, 2026, featuring events for adults and families while the Museum remains open to the public. See the full schedule at https://mjhnyc.org/events/2026-new-york-jewish-book-festival/—

The festival will celebrate Jewish storytelling, heritage, and creativity through a full day of talks, panels, readings, book signings, and workshops, highlighting the vibrancy and diversity of Jewish voices in contemporary literature. Signature programs include:

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●Writing Grief That Isn't Yours Alone brings André Aciman, Tikva Hecht and Shamar Hill together to discuss inherited loss, communal memory and writing across generations.

● I Wanna Be a Part of It: New York City Memoirs features Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, Zalman Newfield and Rossi on the very different paths they took through New York City.

● Modes of Memory: Recipes, Stories, and Photography brings chef Alon Shaya, Devra First and photographer Mayan Toledano together to explore ways of preserving survivors' stories, in a program co-presented by Jewish Food Society.

● Renoir's Jewish Muses pairs Doreen Carvajal and Catherine Ostler in a discussion with journalist Leslie Camhi about the Cahen d'Anvers sisters, their portraits and the family's place in prewar France.

● A Jew in the Woods: Pages from a Diary features Miriam Lieber discussing her father Berl Kagan's account of hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Eastern Europe, with Lisa Newman of the Yiddish Book Center.

● Genre and family programs include a Jewish horror panel, a conversation with romance writers, a discussion of middle grade and young adult novels, and Heather Stoltz's Sewing Stories Workshop.

● Five Books podcastwill be onsite to record an episode with Gale Carson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted, about her new book The Unusuals and the books that shaped her.

Festival partners this year include 14th Street Y, Be'chol Lashon, Jewish Book Council, Keshet, Lilith Magazine, PJ Library, Primo Levi Center, Simchat Torah Challenge, and Yiddish Book Center. Attendees will also enjoy a curated marketplace, including Henna, Jewish Henna NYC, Jewish Paper Guy, Made by Maggie, and Salt Sparkle Shalom.

The festival will run from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Museum, located at Edmond J. Safra Plaza,36 Battery Place in Battery Park City. Admission is free though a donation of $10 is suggested.

You can view the full schedule at https://mjhnyc.org/events/2026-new-york-jewish-book-festival. Contactpubprog@mjhnyc.org with any questions about the festival.

While visiting, attendees can nosh at the acclaimed LOX Café, visit Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones, and visit the museum's inspiring and moving exhibitions.The Museum's exhibitions, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do and Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark, as well as the recently opened, Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, will be on view and open to book festival registrants.

About The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The Museum of Jewish Heritage's mission is to educate a diverse community of visitors about Jewish life and heritage, including before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Museum serves tens of thousands of schoolchildren annually through school partnerships, educator training, and resources addressing historical and contemporary antisemitism, and houses the Peter & Mary Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Resource Center, Edmond J. Safra Hall, and Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones. The Museum's current offerings includeCourage to Act: Rescue in Denmark, an exhibition about the extraordinary rescue of Denmark's Jewish population in 1943;The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, which offers a timely, expansive presentation of Holocaust history; andWill These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, which features original materials secretly collected and buried by Jews imprisoned inside the Warsaw ghetto. The Museum presents more than 100 public programs annually and receives operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visithttps://mjhnyc.org.