Top 35 Jewish Book Influencers in 2026

1. Sim Kern

Bio Bestselling author of GENOCIDE BAD and THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE. they/them Instagram Handle @sim_bookstagrams_badly Instagram Followers 284.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact Request 239 Jewish Book Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Copy emailEmail us

2. Shmuley Boteach

Bio “America’s Rabbi”
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Husband & father of 9
🎙 Host of The Shmuley Show
📚 International Best-Selling Author *****@shmuley.com Instagram Handle @rabbishmuley Instagram Followers 96K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

3. Amanda

Bio 🌈💙✡️📍Brooklyn, NYC
📖books, lifestyle, theatre/tv/fim, and NYC
📩*****@gmail.com
🎧audiobook obsessed
📚bookseller @loveandlegendsbooks Instagram Handle @its.amandas.bookshelf Instagram Followers 55.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +9% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

4. Steve Leder

Bio Rabbi Emeritus @wilshireboulevardtemple
NY Times bestselling author *****@storydmedia.com Instagram Handle @steve_leder Instagram Followers 53.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +9% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

5. Ben M Freeman

Bio Author: Jewish Pride, Reclaiming our Story, The Jews: An Indigenous People and Jewish Pride Press. Instagram Handle @benmfreeman Instagram Followers 43.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

6. Abby Stein

Bio Activist, parent, author (#BecomingEve, Sources of Pride), speaker, Rabbi & educator, and queer girl of trans experience.
Opinions my own. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @abbychavastein Instagram Followers 33.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

7. Danya Ruttenberg

Bio Rabbi /award-winning author of 8 books📚 Truth, transformation, & collective liberation💥for smart folks of all sorts: LifeIsASacredText.com🌱 *****@lifeisasacredtext.com Instagram Handle @rabbidanyaruttenberg Instagram Followers 31.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

8. Sari Kopitnikoff

Bio Bringing the beauty & creativity of Judaism ✡️ to life through mysteries, art, humor, books, games, & programs.
Lots of free stuff 👇 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @thatjewishmoment Instagram Followers 20.1K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

9. Shannon Sarna

Bio Chief of staff to @danricher at @razzanj
2x cookbook author
As seen on PBS “Table for All”, The Kelly Clarkson Show, TheKitchn, Food52, Bon Apetit *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @shasarna Instagram Followers 18.9K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

10. Caroline Kusin Pritchard

Bio Reader, writer and kveller of books
📚: THE KEEPER OF STORIES, THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED, WHERE IS POPPY and more!
🎙️: @kidlithappyhour *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @carolinepritchardwrites Instagram Followers 18K Follower Growth (3mo) +14% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

11. Jean Meltzer

Bio 👑 “Queen of Jewish Romance”
✡️ Founder & CEO, Jewish Joy LLC
📚 INTL Bestselling Author
🏆 Emmy Winner
💖 Building spaces for Jewish creatives *****@harpercollins.com Instagram Handle @jeanmeltzer Instagram Followers 17.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

12. Lilli

Bio #litbylillireviews
Book reader, tea drinker, teacher
✡️ @matzahbooksoup co-host
📚 helping you find your next read *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @litbylilli Instagram Followers 16.2K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

13. Rebecca Keren

Bio 🔥 Rabbi & Author & IVF Mom
NY/FL/CT/NJ/🇺🇸🇮🇱🇦🇺🇬🇧
Getting ✡️ with fabulous families
📕Confessions of a Female Rabbi: Relevant Religion in an On-Demand 🌎 Instagram Handle @myhotrabbi Instagram Followers 14.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +6% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

14. Elliot J. Cosgrove

Bio Rabbi: Park Avenue Synagogue
🎧 Podcast: Common Faith on SiriusXM
📖 Author: For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today
Substack: Off The Pulpit Instagram Handle @elliot_cosgrove Instagram Followers 12K Follower Growth (3mo) +11% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

15. Lisa Barr

Bio New York Times & USA TODAY bestselling author of THE GODDESS OF WARSAW and WOMAN ON FIRE🔥📚👊Wife/Mom of 3 Daughters (aka: Drama Central) *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @lisabarr18 Instagram Followers 11.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +9% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

16. Kayla Plutzer

Bio Bookworm📖 Jewish Educator📚 TpT Creator
CR: The Final Score by Lana Ferguson
“The Queen of YA” - @getlitwithlianna
📧 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @kaylareadsbooks Instagram Followers 8.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

17. Elliot Kukla

Bio Diasporist rabbi & author. Read my upcoming books: THE HEART LIVES BY BREAKING, Fall ‘27 (schocken @aaknopf); THE LAZY DAY, Spring ‘27 (@abramsbooks) *****@elliotkukla.com Instagram Handle @elliotkukla Instagram Followers 7.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

18. Karin Horen

Bio Mindset coach
I help women move from overwhelm → clarity & confidence
Keynote Speaker |Author | 2 x Cancer Survivor
Book your clarity call Now *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @karin_horen Instagram Followers 7.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

19. Shmuly Yanklowitz

Bio Rabbi Shmuly is an Author, Educator, & Activist and wants to join you to build a World on Wisdom & Kindness! 🕊✌️🌱🌍 *****@rabbishmuly.com Instagram Handle @rabbi_shmuly Instagram Followers 6.3K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

20. Avremi Zippel

Bio utah’s first homegrown rabbi • bestselling author • public speaker • advocate for sexual violence survivors • order ‘not what i expected’ 👇 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @utahrabbi Instagram Followers 5.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

21. Dr Lee Kofman

Bio 👉I help writers to write their best & be inspired.
Exophonic, trilingual author of 9 books, incl The Writer Laid Bare & @ruptured_book A proud Jew. Instagram Handle @leekofman Instagram Followers 5K Follower Growth (3mo) +10% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

22. Menachem Creditor

Bio Author, Teacher, Hope-Amplifier Instagram Handle @rabbicreditor Instagram Followers 4.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

23. Dara Levan

Bio 📖 Award-winning author of IT COULD BE WORSE
📚 SHAKEN TO THE CORE (Regalo) is out 6/23
🎧 Creator/host, Every Soul Has a Story® podcast *****@everysoulhasastory.com Instagram Handle @dara.levan Instagram Followers 4.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

24. Tori Gellman

Bio 📚 a little Teen Librarian who reads a lot
📕lover of YA and short story collections
📖 Queer and Jewish Instagram Handle @torithelibrarian Instagram Followers 2.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +7% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

25. Shira Stutman

Bio Rabbi, podcaster, writer, teacher. That’s enough for today. Pre-order my book, The Jewish Way to a Good Life, which publishes March 2025! Instagram Handle @shirastutman Instagram Followers 2.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

26. Talia Carner

Bio Author of 6 historical and heart-wrenching novels about social and historical issues. #taliacarner, #authortalia
@taliacarner, @authortalia *****@aol.com Instagram Handle @talia.carner Instagram Followers 1.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

27. June Hersh

Bio Author/Speaker celebrating Culinary History, Culture and Community. Honoring Holocaust survivors, preserving Jewish food memory. Eat Well-Do Good *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @junehersh Instagram Followers 1.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

28. Primrose Madayag Knazan

Bio 📖 LESSONS IN FUSION
🏆 @mbbookawards
🎭 PRECIPICE
🏆Canadian Jewish Playwright Competition
🍽️ @pegonaplate foodblog
⬇️ Media, reviews, book info *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @primrosemk Instagram Followers 1.1K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

29. Barbara Bietz

Bio Children's Book Author, Blogger, Educator
Represented by Rising Bear Literary
Blog: JewishBooksforkids.com *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @barbarabietz Instagram Followers 981 Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female jewishbooksforkids.com + Follow Get Email Contact

30. Yakir Dayan

Bio *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @yakir.dayan Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

31. Kate Friedman

Bio Spawn of @CrazyJewishMom/ @KimFriedmanNYC
Advice 🎥&📝:
👉@AskMomAndSpawn👈
NYTimes Bestselling Author
*****@gmail.com
😻@TheFoundingMeowers Instagram Handle @katefriedmansiegel Instagram Followers 80.5K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

32. Brooke

Bio she’s got a book for every situation🌸
📍nyc
✡️ jewish reader & reviewer Instagram Handle @brooke.is.booked Instagram Followers 2.9K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

33. Matthew A Schultz

Bio Jew, Rabbi. Author. Instagram Handle @matthew_a_schultz Instagram Followers 1.6K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

34. Aleah Gornbein

Bio Just a Jewish publicist reading Jewish YA books so I can yell about them 📖
📍NYC // לבי במזרח ✡️
*opinions my own* *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @jewishyabooks Instagram Followers 866 Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact