Braun Library

Books: A Wonderful Way to Pass the Time!

Stuck at home? Do your children or grandchildren need something other than a screen? We’ve got some Jewish ideas for you! Fill your hours at home with free Jewish books you can download or read online. Here are our favorite picks from the Braun Library.

Note: Some of these links require setting up a free account or downloading a free ebook reading program. Contact Librarian Ellen Lorang for technical assistance. She’ll be happy to help!

Young Children | Downloads | Passover Kindle | Podcasts | Adult
Children | Yiddish | KarBen Publishing

For Young Children:

• My School is Closed Today (helps explain the current situation to young children) 
• PJ Library Family Haggadah
• The Passover Story for Kids
• Rabbi Benjamin’s Buttons
• Sammy Spider’s First Mtzvah
• The Littlest Levine
• It’s a Mitzvah, Grover
• Tot Shabbat
• Assorted Sesame Street Books

More free downloads:

• Academic articles & book chapters from JSTOR
• New Kosher Vegan Cookbook
• The Jewish Fake Book
• Yiddish Books
• Sefaria – a huge compendium of Jewish texts in Hebrew and English

Passover Kindle Books for Children 

We have these books in the Braun library, but since you can’t come in, we’re sharing the Amazon links with you here. We’ll also be reading them at our Zoom Preschool Storytimes. See the schedule here.

• Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush – ages 5-9
• Viva, Rose! – Grades 4-6
• Only Nine Chairs: A Tall Tale for Passover – Ages 3-8
• Lotsa Matzah – ages 1-4
• Passover is Coming – ages 1-4
• Let My People Go! – grades K-3
• Izzy the Whiz and Passover McClean – ages 3-8
• The Passover Cowboy – ages 8-12
• It’s Passover, Grover! – ages 2-5
• Sammy Spider’s First Haggadah – ages 3-8

More links to engage your mind:

Podcasts

• Adventures in Jewish Studies
• Can We Talk?
• Jewish History Matters
• A Jewish Life
• Jewish Lives
• Judaism Unbound
• Unorthodox
• Israel Story
• Parsha in Progress
• Tikvah
• Two Nice Jewish Boys
• UCLA Leve Center
• Jewish Theological Seminary

For Adults

• Jewish Fiction
• Chabad
• Nishmas Chayim
• A Treasury of Jewish Folklore
• Here to Stay: A Collection of Jewish Short Stories
• Jewish Book Club

For Children

• Jewish Book Town
• Chabad
• Shema Yisrael Torah Network
• Storytelling Games
• The Book Meshuggenahs Activitiesz

Yiddish

• Project Gutenberg

KarBen Publishing has made these 9 Passover children’s eBooks with audio available for free.

Username: passover | Password: passover

• A Different Kind of Passover
• A Place for Elijah
• ABC Passover Hunt
• Afikomen Mambo
• And Then Another Sheep Turned Up
• Dinosaur on Passover
• Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush
• Seder in the Desert
• The Littlest Levine

Help us add to our ever-growing list. Email Ellen and share your suggestions.