Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls...
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Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag by Zvi Preigerzon
Edited & Translated by Alex Lahav Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject. It was...
Before It’s Too Late: A Love Letter to My Daughters and America by Eric Rozenberg
Imagine having to leave the only home you’ve ever known because of rising prejudice against your ethnicity. Eric Rozenberg grew up in Belgium, surrounded by rising anti-Semitism. In 2013, fearing for the safety of...
Style, story and sincerity: Thoughts on “The Immigrant” by Frederic Petrovsky
The first thing that grabbed me in Frederic Petrovsky’s novel was its style. The sense of awe stayed with me as I kept reading the book and noticed how it became versatile and always...
Useful Junk by Erika Meitner
A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems. In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as...
The Femininity Puzzle by Ulrike Brunotte
Gender, Orientalism and the »Jewish Other« Historical Gender Studies In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the Jewish Other. Ulrike Brunotte...
Escape from the Ghetto by John Carr
A Story of Survival and Resilience in World War II This captivating true story of one boy’s flight across Europe to escape the Nazis is a tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and the...
“And You Shall Tell Your Son”: Identity and Belonging as Shaped by the Jewish Holidays by Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg
Translated from the Hebrew by Nancy Rosenfeld In this volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational, values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidays―festivals and holy days―as found in the Jewish...
The 65 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2022
Here is the list of the 65 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
G’mar chatima tova! 5783
FYI: The image above is a “Late 19th Century Austro-Hungarian Silver Yom Kippur Belt Buckle”, available here. What is a “Yom Kippur Belt Buckle”? “Traditionally, Orthodox Jewish worshippers have worn a white gown on...
