Young Captain on a Broken Boat by Isaac Adler
Childhood memories of a World War II Jewish refugee turned away from British Palestine to an island prison in Mauritius Years ago, a young Jewish boy stood on a broken boat, half buried in...
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Bullets Aren’t Kosher by Ezra Barany
Have you ever woken up wondering where you were, who you were, and why you were wanted for murder?The officer pointed her hunting knife at me.“You’re going to die here,” she said.Damn, that sounded...
Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America by Ruth Gruener
With a foreword by Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee. Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed...
Studies in Life From Jewish Proverbs by W A L Elmslie
The greater part of this volume … is occupied with a study of the teaching of “”Wisdom”” among the Jews in Palestine during the Hellenistic Age, so far as the subject is represented in...
The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff
Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in...
The 70 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in June 2021
Here is the list of the 70 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in June 2021. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Cousins’ Club by Warren Alexander
When the matriarch of the least successful Jewish family in America gets tired of their misfortune, she consults mystical texts for help. Determined that their next grandchild will be a genius who changes their...
Jacobo’s Rainbow by David Hirshberg
Jacobo’s Rainbow is an historical literary novel set primarily in the nineteen sixties during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an...
Sefer Orchot Tzaddikim : Ways Of The Righteous
Orchot Tzaddikim – Ways Of The Righteous, is a book on Jewish ethics written in Germany in the 15th century, entitled Sefer ha-Middot by the author, but called Orḥot Ẓaddiḳim by a later copyist....
37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M.S. St. Louis, 1939 by Barbara Krasner
In May 1939, nearly one thousand German-Jewish passengers boarded the M.S. St. Louis luxury liner bound for Cuba. They hoped to escape the dangers of Nazi Germany and find safety in Cuba. In this...
