While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart
One woman must make the hardest decision of her life in this unforgettably moving story of resistance and faith during one of the darkest times in history. Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man...
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The Beast that Crouches at the Door by David Fohrman
What are we to learn from the narratives in the Torah? A walking, talking snake. A tree that bears mysterious knowledge of Good and Evil. A mark upon Cain for all to see. The...
Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
Part poignant cancer memoir and part humorous reflection on a motherless life, this debut graphic novel is extraordinarily comforting and engaging. From before her mother’s first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer...
The Achievement of David Novak; Edited by Matthew Levering, Tom Angier
This book is a Festschrift offered by twelve Catholic theologians and philosophers to the great Jewish theologian David Novak. Each of the twelve essays is followed by a response by David Novak, and it...
The 51 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2021
Here is the list of the 52 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2021. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Nathan’s Song by Leda Schubert
Illustrator: Maya Ish-Shalom The Jewish immigrant experience in the early 1900s is touchingly and joyfully portrayed in this picture book based on the author’s own grandfather. Growing up in a shtetl in Russia, Nathan...
Rorty and the Prophetic: Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher; edited by by Jacob L. Goodson, Brad Elliott Stone
Rorty and the Prophetic interrogates and provides a constructive assessment to the American neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty’s critiques of Jewish ethics. Rorty dismisses the public applicability of Jewish moral reasoning, because it is based...
The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell
In 1939, as the Nazi closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to share his last name. He and his wife, Viennese Jews, had found escape routes...
The Power of Forgiveness by Eva Mozes Kor
Eva Mozes Kor forges a path of reconciliation and healing as a Holocaust survivor, sharing her life-changing message that forgiveness frees us from the pain of the past. Eva Mozes Kor was just ten...
Truly Great Jewish Women—Then & Now by Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein
Learning about the great personalities of Tanach, we find ourselves in awe. Inspiration, though, generally only lasts when you realize that the lives, struggles, and challenges of these greats, find parallels within our own...
