Afikomen Judaica

Afikomen is the San Francisco Bay Area's Emporium for the Jew-curious, Est. 1991

Afikomen specializes in being an inclusive welcoming space, for all affiliations and orientations, wherever someone is on their Jewish journey. You will find this openness and intellectual curiosity reflected in our diverse range of Jewish books and beyond. Browse our curated lists and search for any book offered on this site.

Visit us at www.afikomen.com for a stunning selection of Judaica and ritual items, works by local and Israeli artists, Fair Trade Judaica products, gorgeous Tallits, holiday merchandise, jewelry, mezuzah cases and so much more. Thank you for shopping at Afikomen!

The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter: From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti
RAM Dass 2024 Weekly Planner: Be Here Now
Be Here Now 2024 Wall Calendar: Teachings from RAM Dass
The Jewish Calendar 2023-2024 (5784) 16-Month Wall Calendar
The Jewish Calendar 2023-2024 (5784) 16-Month Planner
Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
ParshaNut: 54 Journeys into the World of Torah Commentary
Rbg's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet
Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children
It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation
The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth
Today in the Taxi
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
The Prince of Steel Pier
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
Love
Cooking Alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy
Signal Fires
My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About Israel
On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
Shayna
Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous Writers
Flower Child Noir
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
The Glassmaker's Son: Looking for the World My Father Left Behind in Nazi Germany
Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children
The Glassmaker's Son: Looking for the World my Father left behind in Nazi Germany
Near Normal Man: Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope
What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism
Lost and Found
My Little Book of Exiles
Turtle Boy
Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs - An Antidote for Short-Termism
Dead Collections
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
Aerograms Across the Ocean
Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous Writers
The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
What Disappears
Love
Shayna
My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region
Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder
Signal Fires
Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition
Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation
Fear and Other Stories
Mr. Perfect on Paper (Original)
The Ghetto Within
The Chosen
Lost and Found
Feeding Women of the Bible, Feeding Ourselves: A Jewish Food Hero Cookbook
Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves
The Jewish Home (Updated Edition)
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Trappers, Hunters, Foragers, Slaughterers, Butchers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutt
Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century to Today
Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
The Rising Life: Challah Baking. Elevated
Modern Jewish Comfort Food: 100 Fresh Recipes for Classic Dishes from Kugel to Kreplach
Lessons in Fusion
A Place at the Table
Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
Modern Table: Kosher Recipes for Everyday Gatherings
250 Amazing Passover Recipes: Cook it Yourself with Passover Cookbook!
52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice
The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter: From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
The Jewish Home (Updated Edition)
Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews
Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children
Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century
Chana: A Life in Prayer
Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma: New Preface by Author, New Foreword by Gabor Maté, Reading Group and Study Gu
Choosing Hope: The Heritage of Judaism
Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living
What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism
Even God Had Bad Parenting Days
The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking
The Jewish Wedding Now
Chana: A Life in Prayer
The Laws & Customs of Chanukah
The Koren Talpiot Siddur: A Hebrew Prayerbook with English Instructions, Ashkenaz
The Koren Sacks Pesah Mahzor
Koren Shalem Siddur with Tabs, Compact, Blue
The Koren Tefilla Siddur, Ashkenaz, Pocket
A Jewish Book of Comfort
The Gates of Prayer: Twelve Talks on Davvenology
Koren Shalem Siddur, Sepharad
Too Good To Passover: Sephardic & Judeo-Arabic Seder Menus and Memories from Africa, Asia and Europe
The Passover Anthology
Counting the Days: Growing your Family's Spirit by Counting the Omer
Omer/Teshuvah: Poetic Meditations for Counting the Omer or Turning Toward a New Year
Omer: A Counting
The Yom Kippur Anthology
By His Light: Character and Values in the Service of God
The Haggadah: Pathways to Pesach and the Haggadah
The Kabbalistic Tree / האילן הקבלי
Orot (Hebrew/English)
Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century
Embodied Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism for All People
Defender of the Faithful: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv
Eternal Questions
The Laws & Customs of Chanukah
The Month of Kislev: Rekindling Hope, Dreams and Trust
Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays in Habad Thought and History
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Jews and Booze: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Denial in the Jewish World
The Kabbalah of Writing: Mystical Practices for Inspiration and Creativity
Eight Lights: Eight Meditations for Chanukah
Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
Feeding Women of the Bible, Feeding Ourselves: A Jewish Food Hero Cookbook
Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Chana: A Life in Prayer
Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash
The JPS Guide to Jewish Women
The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the Original JPS Translation
Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing
Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Even God Had Bad Parenting Days
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
Ella Kvellephant and the Search for Bubbe's Yiddish Treasure
The City of Light
Rbg's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone
The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda
Shoshi's Shabbat
The Peddler's Gift
Mrs. Katz and Tush
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 8 Nights of Chanukah
Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat
Even God Had Bad Parenting Days
A Children's Treasury of Rebbe Nachman's Tales
Just Try One Bite
My Grandpa Has Superpowers