Museum of Jewish Heritage Presents 4th Annual New York Jewish Book Festival

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced that the fourth annual New York Jewish Book Festival will be held on Sunday, November 16, 2025, featuring events for adults, kids, and families and offering tours of the Museum’s current exhibitions, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do and Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark.

The festival – which will be held both in-person and virtually – will feature talks, panels, and author signings. The festival will touch on themes of Jewish heritage, culture, and history, modern life and literature.

This summer the Museum has opened a call for submissions to present and/or participate. Anyone interested can submit an author, a book, or a panel to be considered for this year’s festival. More information – including a link to sign up to receive updates, and a form to submit authors or books for consideration (deadline August 15, 2025) can be found at https://mjhnyc.org/new-york-jewish-book-festival-2025.

Please contact pubprog@mjhnyc.org with any questions about the festival or partnerships and sponsorships.

The full schedule of programming will be announced in the fall.

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 main exhibition, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do and the upcoming exhibition Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark 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 – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York’s contribution to the global responsibility to Never Forget. Opened in 1997, the Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.

The Museum plays a leading role in Holocaust education in New York City and the tri-state area, serving many thousands of school children each year, with initiatives such as its Holocaust Educator School Partnership Program, professional development opportunities, its Speakers Bureau which enables conversations with survivors, and the creation of tools and resources such as the newly released Antisemitism FAQ Educator Resource to support educators in teaching about both historical and contemporary antisemitism.

The Museum’s current offerings include Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark, an exhibition about the extraordinary rescue of Denmark’s Jewish population in 1943, a story of mutual aid and communal upstanding in difficult times for visitors aged 9 and up; and The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, a major exhibition offering a timely and expansive presentation of Holocaust history, on view in the main galleries.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage maintains the Peter & Mary Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Resource Center, a collection of almost 40,000 artifacts, photographs, documentary films, and survivor testimonies, and contains classrooms, a 375-seat theater (Edmond J. Safra Hall), special exhibition galleries, and a memorial art installation, Garden of Stones, designed by internationally acclaimed sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. The Museum also hosts LOX at Café Bergson an OU-certified café serving eastern European specialties.

Each year, the Museum presents over 100 public programs, connecting our community in person and virtually through lectures, book talks, concerts, and more. For more info visit: http://mjhnyc.org/events. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit mjhnyc.org.