The 71 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2022
Here is the list of the 71 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses by Neil R. Davison
The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman (Florida James Joyce) A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the writing of James Joyce. In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853‒1903),...
Making German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and Place by Katja Garloff
German Jewish Cultures In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of...
“Nice” Jewish Girls by Julia Merberg
Illustrator: Georgia Rucker Thirty-six mini biographies of groundbreaking, outspoken, odds-defying Jewish women explore their fascinating lives, as well as the ways in which they were shaped by their heritage. Probing the lives of historic...
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss
Bestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fissionAs a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for...
Yiddish as a Mixed Language by Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, Agata Reibach
Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome Yiddish, the language of Eastern-European Jews, has so far been mostly described as Germanic within the framework of the traditional, divergence-based Language Tree Model. Meanwhile, advances in...
A Place to Belong: Debbie Friedman Sings Her Way Home by Deborah Lakritz
Illustrator: Julie Castano How Debbie Friedman became one of Judaism’s best-known singer/songwriters.
Peninnah’s World: A Jewish Life in Stories by Caren Schnur Neile
She’s an iconic Jewish storyteller. She’s a widely acclaimed professor and folklorist. She’s the one and only Peninnah Schram, and Peninnah’s World: A Jewish Life in Stories is her authorized biography, told through individual...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim
The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an observer and chronicler of his times. Born and raised in Galicia on the...
Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara Bloemink
Lauded by the New Yorker as one of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” this comprehensive biography establishes Florine Stettheimer as one of the most innovative artists of the early twentieth century. Florine...
