The 44 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in March 2020
Here is the list of the 44 books that I posted on this site, JewishBookWorld.org in March 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s...
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The Watchmaker by B.L. Blocher
The Watchmaker is a thrilling action packed adventure which takes place during one of the darkest periods in world history, the Holocaust. Inconceivably, Hitler’s henchmen without any compassion or empathy, devised a heinous plan...
The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery by Ilan Stavans
In 2017,the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier...
Matzah Mia! by Libi Astaire
When a sack full of counterfeit gold coins is found in a matzah bakery, the most likely suspect is the Jewish baker who owns it—and if Mr. Ezra Melamed can’t prove his innocence the...
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between by Michael Dobbs
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany. In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy...
Free online course about Sholem Aleichem’s “Tevye, The Dairyman”, the inspiration for “Fiddler on the Roof”
The Tikvah Fund‘s online university offers two courses for free right now. If you are interested in Jewish film you would find interesting a Harvard professor’s, Ruth Wisse‘s 8 episode course. Here is the official description The...
6494 Jewish books to read for free
Here is the list of books, related to Jews, you can read/borrow from the National Emergency Library (NEL) right now. NEL is an initiative of the Internet Archive and here is their announcement about...
The A-Z of Intermarriage by Denise Handlarski
Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity. Contrary to the view that intermarriage is a crisis for Judaism, The A–Z of Intermarriage reveals that intermarriage can be a...
Mixed Messages: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile by Eleanor Foa
In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose Italian-Jewish roots trace...
Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust by Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff
This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Rūta Vanagaitė, a successful...
