Zabar’s: A Family Story, with Recipes by Lori Zabar
Foreword: Julia Moskin When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a dairy store on 80th Street and Broadway in 1934 to sell smoked fish, they could not have imagined that their store...
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The Book of Strzyzow and Vicinity Poland by Itzhok Berglass, Shlomo Yahalomi-Diamond (Editors)
Strzyzow (also known as Strizev in Yiddish and Strezow in German) is today a major town in southern Poland (it was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary, from 1776 to 1919). The...
Sabine’s Odyssey by Agnes Schipper
A Hidden Child and her Dutch Rescuers This is the story of Sabine Fröhlich and the harrowing experiences of her family during the Nazi regime – experiences she did not disclose to her children...
The Last Jewish Gangster: The Early Years by David Larson
In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy is rejected by his mother so she can run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy’s godfather. Shirley Rook quickly rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As...
The 36 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2022
Here is the list of the 36 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
The triumph of unwavering optimism; thoughts on The Presidents’ School: The New Way Forward by Andrew Caldwell
You don’t even have to suspend your disbelief: the relentless optimism of Andrew Caldwell’s political fantasy will steamroll it for you. Reading it provided me with a much-needed dose of upbeat energy, contrasting what...
From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos
Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else...
Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment by Carol Siegel
Raced, Sexed, and Erased What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews...
Just Freddy by Joel Stern
Foreword: Rob Rinder Just Freddy, the story inspired by Freddy Stern’s escape from Nazi Germany, is released today, published exclusively through Amazon. A new book specifically written to introduce children and young adults to...
Titan of Tehran by Shahrzad Elghanayan
From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad – My Grandfather’s Life “Titan of Tehran,” a richly reported and elegantly rendered story, presents a compelling central character, historic sweep and moments that read like chapters...
