Love and Latkes by Stacey Agdern
Friendships and Festivals Book 3 Batya Averman is ecstatic when a latke fry-off committee chooses her as its web designer—until she learns the event is in Rivertown, New York, the hometown she fled years...
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Victims, Villains and Women of Valor: Women in the Era of the Biblical Judges by Shera Aranoff Tuchman
The book of Judges depicts a bleak period in the history of the Israelites, characterized by a recurrent cycle of sin, servitude, repentance, and temporary redemption as the Israelites repeatedly fall into the pagan...
Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz
Mimi Schwartz’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he’d tell her, “We all got along.” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad...
The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
Translator: David McKay The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. Jan Zwartendijk...
The 33 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2021
Here is the list of the 33 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2021. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Hanukkah (Traditions & Celebrations) by Jessica Server
Hanukkah is about celebrating! Often called the Festival of Lights, the eight-day celebration honors a miracle that happened long ago. During Hanukkah, people light the menorah. They sing songs. They gather with family and...
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed....
Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible by Mark Glouberman
The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward...
Jewish and Arab Childhood in Israel: Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by Einat Baram Eshel, Wurud Jayusi, Ilana Paul-Binyamin, Eman Younis This book is a result of the growing public and academic interest in the variety of childhoods that take place side by side...
Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich by Stephen H. Norwood
Studies in Antisemitism American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third...
