The Last Words We Said by Leah Scheier
All the Bright Places meets If I Stay in this heart-wrenching, romantic novel about a tight-knit group of teen girls coping with a devastating loss and what happens when your best friend is also...
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ZOA Book Club: Kenneth Feinberg’s “What Is Life Worth?” [JBS video]
From Jewish Broadcasting Service: After a long hiatus, the popular ZOA Book Club is back, hosted by ZOA Director of Special Projects Liz Berney. This edition features famed attorney and mediation/dispute resolution expert Kenneth...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers...
Most popular books posted in December 2021 on JewishBookWorld.org
Here are the top 5 most popular/visited books from the 171 books I added in December 2021. (Based on the number of times these books’ pages were visited in January 2022, the first month...
Tales of Chelm: How the Chelmites Stole the Moon
The JArtsTM TheatreWorks production of Talesof Chelm is based on the book, “The Wise Folk of Chelm” by Rabbi Seymour Rossel. Adaptors Jesse Garlick and Dori Robinson approach classic Jewish folktales through a modern lens in Tales of Chelm,...
Leizar by David Gelernter
Leizar is a gripping story through five generations, of one man’s journey against incredible adversity It’s 1843 in a little shtetl village in Russian occupied Poland. The baby is delivered amidst blood and pain...
RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women by Nadine Epstein
33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone This collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models–selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court...
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America by Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, Anne Schenderlein (Editors)
Worlds of Consumption This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original...
Leibowitz or God’s Absence by Daniel Horowitz
As a scientist, philosopher and scholar in Jewish thought, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was one of the most noteworthy thinkers in the twentieth century. He was endowed with a remarkable intellect and was knowledgeable across a...
Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust by Rachel L. Einwohner
A powerful account of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable. Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, “Why didn’t Jews resist?”...
