The 54 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2024
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
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Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan...
Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss by Warren Kozak
To those around me—my friends, my colleagues, even my daughter—I appear normal, but in one very fundamental way, I am not. The old me left with my wife. I’m not sure who this new...
As the Dust of the Earth by Harriet Murav
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine Jews of Eastern Europe An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the...
Ain’t No Grave by Mary Glickman
From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South. “A...
Lotus Girl by Helen Tworkov
My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America From one of the central figures in Buddhism’s introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one’s...
Teaching a Dark Chapter by Daniela R. P. Weiner
History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths...
Edison’s Last Breath by Patrick Kendrick
As Thomas Edison was dying, he left test tubes of what he believed would be his final breath, until it was. His intent was to leave his “last breath,” for his protégé, friend, and...
Every Wrinkle Has a Story by David Grossman
Illustrator: NinamasinaTranslator: Jessica Cohen Every Tuesday, Yotam’s grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: “Grandpa, what’s...
Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism by Jonathan Judaken
New Directions in Critical Theory Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should anti-Semitism be defined? What are its underlying causes? Why do...
