Top 40 Jewish Book Influencers in 2026

1. Judy Batalion

Bio New York Times bestselling author. Books: The Girl's Guide to Guts (Nov 10), The Last Woman of Warsaw, The Light of Days, White Walls. *****@penguinrandomhouse.com Instagram Handle @judybatalion Instagram Followers 2.1K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact Request 243 Jewish Book Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Copy emailEmail us

2. 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 18.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

3. 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 Female Get Email Contact

4. 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 104K Follower Growth (3mo) +8% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

5. Steve Leder

Bio Rabbi Emeritus @wilshireboulevardtemple
NY Times bestselling author *****@storydmedia.com Instagram Handle @steve_leder Instagram Followers 54.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

6. Melinda Strauss

Bio ✡️Sharing My Jewish Life 📖Author of cookbook EAT JEWISH🩵TikTok 1.5M🤳🏻Collabs: *****@theArteAgency.com🙋‍♀️Book Events: *****@melindastrauss.comMORE Instagram Handle @therealmelindastrauss Instagram Followers 256.7K Type Macro Gender Female melindastrauss.com/category/.. + Follow Get Email Contact

7. Ben M. Freeman

Bio Author: Jewish Pride, Reclaiming our Story and The Jews: An Indigenous People. Instagram Handle @benmfreeman Instagram Followers 43.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

8. Lisa Barr

Bio NYT bestselling author of THE GODDESS OF WARSAW & WOMAN ON FIRE🔥THE SHADOW ARTIST pubs on March 9, 2027 📚Mom of 3 Daughters (aka: Drama Central) *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @lisabarr18 Instagram Followers 11.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

9. 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 34.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

10. 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 18.8K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

11. Kate Friedman - Siegel

Bio Spawn of @CrazyJewishMom/ @KimFriedmanNYC
Advice 🎥&📝:
👉@AskMomAndSpawn👈
NYTimes Bestselling Author
*****@gmail.com
😻@TheFoundingMeowers Instagram Handle @katefriedmansiegel Instagram Followers 80.3K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

12. 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 12.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +12% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

13. 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) +13% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

14. 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 6.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

15. Menachem Creditor

Bio Author, Teacher, Hope-Amplifier *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @rabbicreditor Instagram Followers 4.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

16. 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

17. Amanda

Bio 🌈💙✡️📍Brooklyn, NYC
📖books, lifestyle, theatre/tv/fim, and NYC
📩*****@gmail.com
🎧audiobook obsessed
📚bookseller @loveandlegendsbooks Instagram Handle @its.amandas.bookshelf Instagram Followers 56.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

18. Rebekah Lowin

Bio My new book, A Year of Jewish Joy, is out now! ↓
Author, artist, mom. Sharing handmade/homemade things to delight and inspire. *****@rebekahlowin.com Instagram Handle @rebekahlowin Instagram Followers 43.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Micro Gender Female rebekahlowin.com/category/ho.. + Follow Get Email Contact

19. 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 20K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

20. Lilli

Bio #litbylillireviews
Book reader, tea drinker, teacher
✡️ @matzahbooksoup co-host
📚 helping you find your next read *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @litbylilli Instagram Followers 16.1K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

21. Jennifer Lentz

Bio ✡️Jewish Believer in Jesus
📚Jewish Bookstagram
💌Bagelandloxangeles@ gmail.com
📍LA/OC
👩🏻‍🏫 Adjunct Professor @talbottheology *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @bagelandloxangeles Instagram Followers 7.7K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

22. 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 5.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +13% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

23. Ann Diament Koffsky

Bio ✨ Award winning author/illustrator
✨ 50+ Joyfully Jewish books for kids
✨ Rep’ed by Joyce Sweeney @seymour.agency
✨ Books & portfolio below! 👇 Instagram Handle @annkoffsky Instagram Followers 2.2K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

24. Barbara Bietz

Bio Children's Book Author, Blogger, Educator
Represented by Rising Bear Literary
Blog: JewishBooksforkids.com *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @barbarabietz Instagram Followers 1K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Nano Gender Female jewishbooksforkids.com + Follow Get Email Contact

25. 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 3K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

26. 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 865 Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

27. 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

28. 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) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

29. Elliot Kukla

Bio Diasporist rabbi & author. Read my upcoming books: THE HEART LIVES BY BREAKING, Fall ‘27 (schocken @aaknopf); THE LAZY DAY, May 4, 2027 *****@elliotkukla.com Instagram Handle @elliotkukla Instagram Followers 7.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

30. 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) +1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

31. 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 2.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

32. 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 1.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +8% 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. Sim Kern

Bio Bestselling author of GENOCIDE BAD and THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE. they/them Instagram Handle @sim_bookstagrams_badly Instagram Followers 286.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

35. Kayla Plutzer

Bio NYC✨Teacher✨Reader
CR: In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto
“The Queen of YA” - @getlitwithlianna
📧 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @kaylareadsbooks Instagram Followers 8.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

36. Primrose Madayag Knazan

Bio 📖 LESSONS IN FUSION
🏆 @mbbookawards
🎭 PRECIPICE
🏆Cdn Jewish Playwright Comp
🍽️ @pegonaplate
🍞 @subversive.sourdough
⬇️ Media, reviews, book info *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @primrosemk Instagram Followers 1.1K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

37. Zibby Owens

Bio Bookworm. Librarian. Kidlit Author-Illustrator, Ravenclaw (naturally).”I think it's only fair to warn you that I am, in fact, a librarian.” *****@zibbymedia.com Instagram Handle @zibbyowens Instagram Followers 81.8K Type Micro Gender Female zibbyowens.com/momsdonthavet.. + Follow Get Email Contact

38. Dara Levan

Bio 📚 SHAKEN TO THE CORE | People & Southern Living Magazine
📖 Award-winning author of IT COULD BE WORSE
🎧 Creator/host, Every Soul Has a Story® podcast *****@everysoulhasastory.com Instagram Handle @dara.levan Instagram Followers 4.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact