Podcast: The Yiddish Fish by Santiago Cohen
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with Santiago Cohen, author and illustrator of the picture book The Yiddish Fish, based on a true...
Category: Older Books
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker by Devra Lehmann
Serious. Sad. Informative. First-time author Devra Lehmann produces an outstanding explanation of the once-shocking philosophy of the now-revered Benedict de Spinoza. The detailed, chronological biography opens with a flashback to the most dramatic event...
The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Masterpiece Was Banned for 200 Years
From Jewniverse In 1959, Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman finished his magnum opus, the novel Life and Fate, an account of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and, simply,...
When We Danced on Water by Evan Fallenberg
From acclaimed author Evan Fallenberg, an exquisitely crafted debut novel tells the story of a preeminent male ballet dancer in theautumn of his career—a Jew whose talent once saved him from the Nazis—whose fading...
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner; A Famly Memoir by Meir Shalev
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth....
The Rise of Reform Judaism A Sourcebook of Its European Origins by W. Gunther Plaut
This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut’s classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers...
The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant
For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called “survivors” could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist...
Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
Edited by Vincent Brook, Marat Grinberg After an introductory overview by Vincent Brook that is probably the most valuable piece in the volume, the essays are grouped into broadly-conceived sections: comparative anal-ysis of the...
94 Maidens by Rhonda Fink-Whitman
They are innocent schoolgirls ranging in age from 14 to 22. Under normal circumstances they should be learning, laughing, and playing. Unfortunately, the year is 1942 and the place is Nazi-occupied Poland. Nothing is...
Jewish LearningWorks’ 4th Annual ONE BAY ONE BOOK: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
One Bay One Book is: A yearlong conversation reaching Bay Area adults through opportunities for lively Jewish learning. Stimulated by a selected book and its themes, the program connecting readers through discussions, events, and...
