The Butterfly and the Axe by Omer Bartov
New Jewish Fiction Spring 1944 A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers? Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of Ukrainian...
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The Unfinished Corner by Dani Colman
Illustrator: Rachel Petrovicz Twelve-year-old Miriam doesn’t know much about Jewish mythology. She’s not even sure she wants to be Jewish. So, imagine her confusion when a peculiar angel whisks her off to finish the...
Flower of Vlora by Anna Kohen
Growing up Jewish in Communist Albania Covering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a funny and tense account of Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania and how they were saved...
The Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Photographs of a Lost Jewish World
Editors: Lisa Newman, Piotr Nazaruk, Aaron Lansky THE GLASS PLATES OF LUBIN features selections from the 2,700 glass photographic plates discovered in the attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building in the former Jewish section...
Returning from Silence: Jenny’s Story by Michèle Sarde
Translator: Ruper Swyer A novel that tells the story of a Jewish family in World War II and reaches deep into Jewish history. Born in Brittany on the threshold of World War II, novelist...
Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale by Ilana Pardes
The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. In this insightful volume, Ilana Pardes invites us to marvel at the ever-changing perspectives on Ruth’s foreignness. She explores the...
The 50 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2022
Here is the list of the 50 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros
From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead, making her way across a civil war-torn continent to save her younger sister as she...
A Synagogue Just Like Home by Alice Blumenthal McGinty
Illustrator: Laurel Molk A new rabbi’s efforts to fix up his aging synagogue are a labor of love—and a comedy of errors—until his congregants fondly pool their talents in this lighthearted celebration of community....
Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family mired in secrets, haunted by their dread of shame and stigma, determined to hide their every...
