The 72 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2025
Here are the 72 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
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REMNANTS and What Remains by Henry Hank Greenspan
Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors Made in Michigan Writer Series This moving collection chronicles the personal and creative journey of Henry Hank Greenspan across five decades of sustained and deepening collaborations with...
The Discovery of Dragons by Leah Cypess
Illustrator: Sarah Lynne Reul Miriam’s Magical Creature A charming chapter book series about a young Orthodox Jewish girl out to discover the truth about all the magical mysteries in her world, perfect for fans...
Sisters of Fortune by Esther Chehebar
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding, even as her family scrambles to prepare for...
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire by Joseph Sassoon
A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents...
Wu Wei Eats an Egg: Poems by Lucas Hirsch
Translator: Donna Spruijt-Metz Jewish Poetry Project Wu Wei Eats an Egg introduces fascinating Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch. Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and...
The Meaning of the Murder by Walter Levis
The father of a modern orthodox Jewish family works as a compliance officer at a bank in New York. When he discovers that his bank is violating OFAC laws and funding terrorists in the...
Hunting in America by Tehila Hakimi
Translator: Joanna Chen An award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction An Israeli woman...
The Guardian: The Rebbe’s Unlikely Warrior by David Effron
Samantha Klein never fit the mold. With ADHD, dyslexia, and a knack for zoning out during class, she was always the “distracted” girl at her Orthodox Jewish high school in Cleveland. But everything changes...
Happy New Years by Maya Arad
Translator: Jessica Cohen After emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing an annual letter on the Jewish new year to her old friends from a...
