The 57 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2025
Here are the 57 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
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Mirror Me by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
A psychiatric patient’s desperate search for answers reveals peculiar memories and unexpected connections in a twisty and mind-bending novel of love, family, betrayal, and secrets. Eddie Asher arrives at Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital panicked...
Louis Graveraet Kaufman by Ann Berman
The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building This fascinating biography recounts the life and legacy of a titan of American banking, Louis Graveraet...
Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying...
Tahini Baby by Eden Grinshpan
Bright, Everyday Recipes That Happen to Be Vegetarian An irresistible celebration of veg-forward Middle Eastern- and Mediterranean-inspired recipes guaranteed to bring fresh flavors and liven up your table, from the beloved TV personality, cookbook...
Fools for Love by Helen Schulman
A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes....
The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the “tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir” (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother’s life, told in reverse order from burial to...
Hidden in Plain Sight by Julie Brill
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before...
The Writer by Josh Gad, The Berkowitz Bros
Illustrated by Ariel Olivetti Josh Gad and the Berkowitz Brothers team up with legendary artist Ariel Olivetti for a thrilling graphic novel of Jewish folklore and magic. The Writer plunges readers into the captivating...
The Sound of Exile: European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947 by Yating Tang
Modern Jewish History Combining diaspora studies and ethnomusicology, The Sound of Exile examines how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai. From...
