How to Pack for the End of the World by Michelle Falkoff
If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across...
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany by Thomas C. Fox
Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights...
Most popular books posted in November 2021 on JewishBookWorld.org
Here are the top 5 most popular/visited books from the 101 books I added in November 2021. (Based on the number of times these books’ pages were visited in December, the first month when...
Yearbook by Seth Rogen
Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!! Yearbook is a...
The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler
One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about...
A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture by Jason Lustig
Oxford Series on History and Archives How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records...
Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959) by Katharina Friedla, Markus Nesselrodt (Editors)
History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival The majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust in the interior of the Soviet Union. This collection of...
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman
A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest musicians of our time. Leonard Cohen’s music is studded...
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement by Julian E. Zelizer
Jewish Lives “When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.” So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in the 1965 Selma civil rights march alongside Martin...
Beyond a Code of Jewish Law: Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Ḥayei Adam by Simcha Fishbane
Judaism and Jewish Life The Ḥayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810. This code spread quickly throughout Europe, and the...
