Author: jewishbooks

Street Cor­ner Dreams by Flo­rence Kraut

Street Cor­ner Dreams by Flo­rence Kraut

A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . . . Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her...

We Used to Dream of Freedom by Sam Chaiton

We Used to Dream of Freedom by Sam Chaiton

A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don’t Tell A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents’ untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life....

Stories My Father Told Me by Dvora Treisman

Stories My Father Told Me by Dvora Treisman

From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic These are stories from far off places, in far off and very different times, stories of everyday people doing everyday things. With his brilliant memory and...

The Unexpected Heiress by George Mallory

The Unexpected Heiress by George Mallory

A Family Saga From Concentration Camp to Gold Mining Empire Editor: Juliette Lachemeier She inherited a legacy of ambition, betrayal, longing and secrets. In the shadow of Poisson Gold, a multi-billion-dollar gold mine conglomerate,...

The Genius of Judy by Rachelle Berg­stein

The Genius of Judy by Rachelle Berg­stein

How Judy Blume Rewrote Child­hood for All of Us An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God?...

Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Aus­lan­der

Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Aus­lan­der

From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his...