New Jewish Books
It is 1522, The Spanish Netherlands, Juan Luis Vives, a renowned academic, has fled Spain to avoid the fires of the Inquisition, yet even here he is not safe. When England’s Sir Thomas More...
In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men’s camp...
Here are the top 5 most popular/visited films from the 70 books I added in July 2021. (Based on the number of times these books’ pages were visited in August , the first month...
Illustrator: Jennifer Naalchigar In this second book about Saralee Siegel, the girl with the superpower smell, Saralee decides to create a new recipe for Sukkot–out of starlight, the secret ingredient that magically makes the...
St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives...
A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff A literary gem researched over a...
The film Casablanca opens with the words, “With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas.” Leslie Epstein’s Hill of...
Lauren is a young recently married college graduate, living in the Colorado Springs, CO area. Growing up with an abusive mother, she finds herself challenged with bouts of insecurity, unworthiness, and depression. The day...
Studies in Jewish History and Culture Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines...
The book of Psalms, today taken by most to be a collection of pious poems and soothing hymns, came into existence against a background of extreme factional violence, competing schools of spiritual enterprise, and...
