The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab
A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice....
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The Prodigal Child by Irène Némirovsky
Translator: Sandra Smith A story of hope and inspiration that becomes torn in the hands of the cold and greedy, and of betrayal by the powerful over lesser ones. Set in what was then...
Most popular books posted in September 2021 on JewishBookWorld.org
Here are the top 5 most popular/visited films from the 33 books I added in September 2021. (Based on the number of times these books’ pages were visited in October, the first month when...
Planting Friendship: Peace, Salaam, Shalom by Callie Metler, Melissa Stoller
Illustrator: Kate Talbot When they meet on the first day of school, three girls realize they are different from each other – Molly is Christian, Savera is Muslim, and Hannah is Jewish. Through a...
The Growth and Destruction of the Community of Uscilug by Aryeh Avinadav
Ustilug, Ukraine The Jewish residents of Ustilug lived in peace for many generations, raising their children to continue their forefathers’ traditions. Igor Stravinsky, the famed composer of “The Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring”,...
Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy
Real Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in...
How Did It Happen?: Understanding the Holocaust by Christoph Dieckmann, Rūta Vanagaitė
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the Holocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for...
The Lost Girl from Belzec by Ravit Raufman
A little girl disappears from Belzec Camp without a trace. Will she survive the war on her own? Poland, 1942. At the very height of World War II, little Ruthie and her mother are...
Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought by Ethan Kleinberg
Cultural Memory in the Present In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas’s Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while...
Barbed Wire University by Dave Hannigan
The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill’s internment of some...
