New Jewish Books
A startling and emotional WWII novel Hungary 1944. The war comes late to Budapest. Nineteen-year-old Marika, forced out of nursing school, believes she and her Jewish family will remain safe, even as Nazi soldiers...
A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously...
Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had...
The Auschwitz Number in Art A generation – of Jews and non-Jews alike – scarred for life: a number indelibly etched into flesh and soul in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, a constant reminder...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
