New Jewish Books
I have never read anything like “Aunt Sadie’s Letters of Hope & Healing” by “Shari Lyn Anderson” and I mean that in the best and most amazed way. On one hand, it is a...
The book’s subtitle: How Bigotry Spread Through Christianity, Islam, Marxism, and Fascist Europe You may be suspicious, like I am, when someone claims their approach is multidisciplinary. You may also think to yourself with...
The book’s subtitle: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man’s Impossible Story of Endurance I have never read an entire book written in the present tense before, so first it was slightly disorienting...
What a coincidence: the day after I finished reading a book that portrayed the difficulties of becoming a “college man” at Harvard in the early 20th century if one does not come from a...
Most novels I read nowadays seem to fall into one of three categories: they are written for entertaining purposes (mysteries, thrillers, science fiction…) or try to educate me (historical fiction) or, rather infrequently, they...
If you appreciate entertainingly written historical fiction, as I do, you will love “Elusive Links” by Dan A Rosenberg, which, partially, starts off in 1492, when Jews were expelled from Spain. I studied quite...
I find that reading a book that deals with theology and history often challenges my own belief system. To be more precise it encourages me to examine the validity of my own thinking, faith,...
Can you imagine a whole college semester packed into a novel? If you read deeply enough–and motivated enough–that’s what you get in “Ephraim’s Bones” by David de Wolf. There is enough material in it...
A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music Of the many virtues and values of “The Cello Still Sings” by Janet Horvath the most outstanding is her unwavering honesty....
I admit I was not too enthused about reading a thick volume about Anti Semitism. However, the combination of three aspects of “A Brief and Visual History of Antisemitism” by Israel B. Bitton not...
