Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff
A woman must rescue her cousin’s family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris 1942. Hannah Martel...
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A Banker’s Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire by Daniel Gross
Who was Edmond J. Safra? “The greatest banker of his generation,” in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child...
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin
Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile...
The 47 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in January 2023
Here is the list of the 47 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in January 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition by Elizabeth Mandel (editor)
In 78 vibrant works by 62 gifted contributors, Jewish girls, young women, and nonbinary teens voice their celebrations and challenges, their anger and their eagerness in essays, poetry, and visual art. And their themes...
Invited to Life: Finding Hope after the Holocaust by B. A. Van Sise
With: Mayim Bialik, Neil Gaiman, Sabrina Orah Mark A moving and joyful celebration of not only survival but also resilience and joy, expressed through 90 black-and-white portraits of Holocaust survivors and personal stories of...
The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman
My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death...
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah by Alan Verskin
The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the...
The Butterfly and the Axe by Omer Bartov
New Jewish Fiction Spring 1944 A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers? Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of Ukrainian...
The Unfinished Corner by Dani Colman
Illustrator: Rachel Petrovicz Twelve-year-old Miriam doesn’t know much about Jewish mythology. She’s not even sure she wants to be Jewish. So, imagine her confusion when a peculiar angel whisks her off to finish the...
