28 Best Publishers of Jewish Books (19 Open to You)

You have written something Jewish, a novel, a memoir, a children’s book, or a work of Torah scholarship, and now you need a publisher who will understand it.

Jewish publishing is a wide field. It runs from Haredi Torah houses in Brooklyn and Jerusalem to Holocaust-memoir specialists in the Netherlands, university imprints in Toronto, and trade houses whose Jewish list is one shelf among many. Nineteen of the presses below read a manuscript sent straight from the writer, with no agent and no reading fee. A few more will read your work but ask you to share the cost, and several publish only what they commission. They are grouped here so you can tell which is which before you send anything. When you are done, my full publishing company collection has more lists like this one.

Publishers that read Jewish manuscripts directly

1. Feldheim

Feldheim Publishers has been a mainstay of Orthodox Jewish publishing since Philipp Feldheim, a refugee from Nazi Europe, opened a Judaica bookshop on New York’s Lower East Side in 1939. The house works from Nanuet, New York, and its catalogue runs from Mishnah and Talmud to Jewish fiction, cookbooks, and children’s books. Feldheim accepts submissions by email and asks for a completed manuscript that holds to Torah values, with a reply usually within three months.

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2. ArtScroll

ArtScroll, the trade name of Mesorah Publications, is the most widely read Orthodox publisher in the English-speaking world, known for its elucidated Talmud, siddurim, and Chumashim. Its editorial office is in Rahway, New Jersey. ArtScroll welcomes proposals and manuscripts for Torah literature by email, asks for an outline plus sample chapters, and says it responds within six to eight weeks.

3. KTAV

KTAV Publishing House, founded in 1921 and now based in Brooklyn, has a long record in Jewish scholarship, textbooks, and Hebrew-language instruction. KTAV accepts submissions by email; its guidelines ask for a subject line reading “Manuscript Submission,” your name and the working title, and either the first few pages or the full edited manuscript.

4. Behrman House

Behrman House has supplied Hebrew schools and Jewish day schools with textbooks and classroom materials for a century, working from Millburn, New Jersey. It also publishes Jewish stories for children, haggadot, and siddurim. Behrman House accepts submissions and proposals for its Editorial Committee, digital Word files preferred, with a cover letter, table of contents, and sample chapters. Its Apples & Honey Press imprint takes picture-book manuscripts at the same address.

5. The Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Publication Society, founded in Philadelphia in 1888, is the oldest Jewish publisher in the United States and the house behind the JPS Tanakh. Its list covers Bible, commentary, history, and Jewish thought for scholars and general readers alike. The Jewish Publication Society accepts proposals through a described process; every project goes to peer review, and it prefers submissions in Word.

6. Gefen Publishing

Gefen Publishing House works out of Jerusalem, with a distribution office in New York, and has spent more than forty years on books about Israel, Judaism, and Jewish life for English-speaking readers. Gefen accepts submissions through a form on its site and will also take hard copy by post; it asks writers to allow about two months for a reply.

7. Koren Publishers

Koren Publishers Jerusalem grew out of the 1962 Koren Tanakh, the first Hebrew Bible set and printed entirely by Jews in centuries, and it is known for the typographic care in its siddurim and its Koren Talmud Bavli. Koren accepts submissions at a dedicated address and asks for a working title, a one-page abstract, and a table of contents.

8. Menucha Publishers

Menucha Publishers, based in Brooklyn, produces Torah works, guides to Jewish law and practice, and fiction for children and adults across the observant community. Menucha accepts proposals and full manuscripts by email or post, asks for your contact details with the manuscript, and confirms both when it arrives and again when a decision is made.

9. Urim Publications

Urim Publications, with offices in Jerusalem and New York, publishes Jewish thought, halacha, history, and some fiction, often work with a scholarly edge. Urim welcomes submissions and asks first for a letter of inquiry with a description of the proposed book and a short author biography.

10. Judaica Press

Judaica Press, in Lawrence, New York, has published Torah study, works on Jewish law and ethics, and children’s books for over fifty years. Judaica Press accepts submissions and will only consider manuscripts that fit Torah-observant Jewish values; it prefers a complete manuscript with a cover letter, sent as a Word, RTF, or PDF file.

11. Kar-Ben

Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint based in Minneapolis, brings out a dozen or more Jewish-themed children’s books a year: picture books, folk tales, holiday stories, and books about Israel. Kar-Ben welcomes unsolicited manuscripts and illustration samples by email, and asks you to send only one manuscript at a time.

12. Jewish Lights

Jewish Lights Publishing built its reputation on books about Jewish spirituality, wisdom, and personal growth, and is now an imprint of Turner Publishing. Jewish Lights accepts submissions and directs writers to send material to Turner’s editorial inbox; it notes that it cannot promise a reply or return your pages, so keep a copy.

13. Israel Bookshop Publications

Israel Bookshop Publications, in Lakewood, New Jersey, publishes for the observant market: halacha, inspirational works, fiction, cookbooks, and children’s books, in print and audio. Israel Bookshop accepts submissions by email as a Word or PDF file, does its own editing, and asks for a cover letter. Expect four to eight weeks for a reply.

14. Second Story Press

Second Story Press is a Toronto feminist publisher whose list includes a long-running Holocaust remembrance series for young readers alongside fiction and non-fiction for all ages. Second Story Press accepts unsolicited submissions and does not require an agent, but it publishes Canadian authors almost exclusively and will not consider anything written with AI. Send a query letter, CV, synopsis, and sample chapters by email.

15. New Jewish Press

New Jewish Press is the Jewish imprint of University of Toronto Press, launched in 2015 to publish the Canadian Jewish experience across fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. New Jewish Press accepts proposals through the University of Toronto Press guidelines, which ask for an author CV and a plan for reaching the book’s readers along with the manuscript’s status.

16. Ben Yehuda Press

Ben Yehuda Press, in Teaneck, New Jersey, publishes Jewish poetry, fiction, liturgy, and thought, and is known for prayer books that bring a contemporary voice to traditional forms. Ben Yehuda Press is open to submissions through a form on its site. It is not taking children’s books, middle grade, cookbooks, visual art, or work on the Second World War and the Holocaust at the moment.

17. MB Publishing

MB Publishing, founded by Margie Blumberg in Bethesda, Maryland, is a small independent house with a Jewish thread running through its picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade novels. MB Publishing accepts submissions by email with the full manuscript, a short description, an author biography, and a list of comparable titles; it replies within two to four weeks when it wants to talk.

18. Fig Tree Books

Fig Tree Books, in Bedford, New York, publishes fiction and non-fiction about the American Jewish experience, and runs a literary newsletter alongside the book list. Fig Tree Books accepts submissions through Submittable, from agented and unagented writers alike, and asks for a finished manuscript.

19. Hachai

Hachai Publishing, in Brooklyn, has specialised since 1989 in Jewish picture books for very young children, each one carrying a traditional value. Hachai welcomes unsolicited manuscripts for readers aged two to six, wants the whole text with your contact details on the title page, and does not produce games, workbooks, or books for adults.

Open, but not only for Jewish books

20. Shambhala

Shambhala Publications is a Boulder, Colorado independent, distributed by Penguin Random House, best known for Buddhism, meditation, yoga, and psychology. Its list is not mainly Jewish, though it carries titles on Jewish spirituality and practice. Shambhala accepts submissions and proposals and says it is actively seeking new and underrepresented voices; a proposal template sits on the submissions page.

Where the author shares the cost

The next two houses will read a manuscript sent straight to them, but both charge the writer up front. Each states its terms openly on its own site, so read them before you commit.

21. Amsterdam Publishers

Amsterdam Publishers, in the Netherlands, is one of Europe’s larger publishers of Holocaust memoir and biography. It has narrowed its focus: novels, poetry, and historical fiction are no longer taken, and it wants a finished, edited English manuscript of at least 60,000 words. Amsterdam Publishers accepts submissions from agented and unagented writers, and it now runs on a hybrid model, a one-time fee to the author in exchange for a larger royalty share. Confirm your manuscript meets the stated requirements before you send it.

22. Yedioth Books

Yedioth Books, the book division of Yedioth Sfarim, is one of the largest trade publishers in Israel, publishing in Hebrew across fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, and spirituality. Yedioth accepts submissions of printed, bound manuscripts with a title page describing the book and its author. It charges a handling fee of 350 shekels per manuscript, payable with the submission and not refundable; work sent without payment or a synopsis is not read.

Not taking submissions right now

23. Schocken Books

Schocken Books began in Germany in 1931, moved to New York after the war, and has been part of what is now Penguin Random House since 1987. Its Judaica list is one of the deepest in trade publishing, from S. Y. Agnon and Franz Kafka to Jonathan Sacks and Elie Wiesel. Schocken does not accept submissions from writers without an agent, and unagented manuscripts sent to it are discarded unread.

24. Halban Publishers

Halban Publishers is a small London house founded in 1986, with a list that leans into Jewish writing, fiction, and Middle Eastern history and current affairs. Halban Publishers is not accepting submissions at present, and its sales are handled through Orion.

No public submissions route

These four are active, but none publishes a way in for an outside manuscript. If your book fits one of them, an agent or a personal introduction is the realistic path.

25. Soncino

Soncino Press carries a name that goes back to a family of Hebrew printers in fifteenth-century Italy. Today it reissues classic Jewish texts, above all its English Talmud and Bible, in careful translations. Its online store is active, but it lists no submissions process, and the catalogue is reissues, not new commissions.

26. Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem Publications is the publishing arm of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, formally established in the 1990s on a legacy that reaches back to Yad Vashem’s founding law of 1953. Its books, among them the multi-volume Comprehensive History of the Holocaust and the Encyclopedia of the Jewish Communities, come out of the Institute’s own research, and there is no channel for an outside manuscript.

27. Mandel Vilar Press

Mandel Vilar Press is the nonprofit publishing arm of Americas for Conservation and the Arts, working from Simsbury, Connecticut. Its list mixes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, with a strong Jewish thread, and it was still bringing out new titles in 2026. The site carries a catalogue and a contact form but no submissions guidelines, so there is no listed way in for an unagented writer.

28. Five Leaves

Five Leaves Publications is a small independent in Nottingham, England, publishing since 1996 across social history, politics, poetry, and a steady line of Jewish-interest books; it also runs the Five Leaves Bookshop. The press works from a small commissioned list and keeps no submissions page.

University presses publish Jewish books too

Some of the most important Jewish books each year come from university presses. Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Illinois, and Jewish studies at Harvard all run substantial lists in Jewish history, religion, and culture, aimed at scholars and general readers alike. These houses take proposals through their own acquisitions editors, not a general inbox. A few titles show the range: Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers (Oxford), The Origin of the Jews by Steven Weitzman (Princeton), The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine (Chicago), Jewish Salonica by Devin E. Naar (Stanford), and Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal (Harvard).

Names you may be looking for

Holmes & Meier. This academic house was known for its Jewish studies and Holocaust studies list, including Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews and Heda Margolius Kovály’s Under a Cruel Star. Its own site is no longer up, and that backlist is now distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Before you send your manuscript

A few habits save weeks. Read two or three of a publisher’s recent books before you write to them, so you know your work fits. Send exactly what the guidelines ask for, in the format they name. Keep a copy of everything. And give each house the time it asks for before you follow up.

Submission policies change without notice, so check each publisher’s own page before you send anything. Last verified: August 27, 2026.

For more on where books find a home, browse my full publishing company collection, or the guide to children’s book publishers if that is your field.