The Riddle of the Trees by Marc S. Perlman
At the same time that a physicist is murdered in a Belarusian forest by a KGB agent, American Jack Miller boards a flight to Eastern Europe, where he hopes to learn what caused an...
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The Sky Was My Blanket by Uri Shulevitz
A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe The final work from celebrated Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz, this gripping and revealing true story follows a young Polish exile fighting to survive in war-torn Europe....
The 39 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2025
Here are the 39 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
The Power of Her Paintbrush: The Story of Theresa Bernstein by Janice Hechter
Theresa Bernstein discovered her love for art at age seven when she drew her first portrait. As a teenager, her photographic memory and sketching skills earned her recognition in art school. After moving to...
Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America by Michael Kimmel
The untold story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child.” In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear―bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and...
A Time to Hide by Marion Seidemann Fredman
Based on a True Story of Survival During the Holocaust Illustrators: Elisa Kleven, Diane Dove A Time to Hide captures a powerful true story of Holocaust survival, told through personal testimony, historical photographs, and evocative...
Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg
From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures—including her child. In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle...
Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer
The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know...
Love Is Strong as Death: A Biography of Franz Rosenzweig by Paul Mendes-Flohr
A brilliant and engaging biography of one of the great modern Jewish thinkers. Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germany. His masterwork, The Star...
Was it Just a Matter of Luck? by Dr. Charles Kaner
A Family, the Holocaust, and the Founding of a Museum Editor: Joy E. Stocke Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory...
