A Zombie Vacation by Lisa Rose
Illustrator: Ángeles Ruiz My walk lacked the proper stiffness. I had lost the urge to moan. My skin no longer had its lovely dull, sickly color. I wasn’t scary anymore . . . Where oh...
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Davening Divine: A Companion to the Weekly Shabbat Davening by Rabbi Ephraim Epstein
We learn how to daven early on in our spiritual journey. There’s nothing more heavenly than listening to a first-grade class reciting the Shema Yisrael. It emanates from their hearts, touches our hearts, and no...
Resistance Girl: A True Survival Story of a Brave Jewish Girl During WW2 by Hassia Knaani
A heart wrenching story of heroic bravery and impossible love, deep in the forest, under the cruel Nazi regime. Poland, 1942. Chaya is a seventeen-year-old daydreamer, whose life is turned upside down when the...
The Exit Visa: A Family’s Flight from Nazi Europe by Sheila Rosenberg
6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi...
Strangers in a Stranger Land: How One Country’s Jews Fought an Unwinnable War alongside Nazi Troops… and Survived by John B. Simon
What did it feel like to be an openly Jewish soldier fighting alongside German troops in WWII? Could a Jewish nurse work safely in a field hospital operating theater under the supervision of German...
Life and Love in Nazi Prague: Letters from an Occupied City by Marie Bader
Translator: Kate Ottevanger Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and...
The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits
An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman’s Daughter is filled with “boundless imagination and a vibrant style” (David Grossman), as well as enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Coen...
Between Berlin and Slobodka: Jewish Transition Figures from Eastern Europe by Hillel Goldberg
This penetrating collective biography traces the odyssey of six towering men of spirit and intellect who absorbed the best that East European Jewish culture could offer and then left to taste the fruits of...
Houdini: The Elusive American by Adam Begley
In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, “The Marvelous Adventures of...
Instagram anniversary
The Instagram account accompanying this website, instagram.com/jewishbookworld is three years old today. This was its very first post: In its third year, I posted 850 posts and gained about 500 followers. # of followers...
