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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...
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The Four Questions by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Illustrator: Ori Sherman Why is this night different from all other nights? Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions...
Beloved Comrades: A Novel in Stories by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Illustrator: Anna Faktorovich Tells of three generations in the life of a small (highly unorthodox) Orthodox American synagogue, revealing the alliances, grievances, and secrets pulsating beneath the seemingly mundane facade of institutional life. Through...
Contested Holiness: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspective on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by Rivka Gonen
The book leads the reader into the intricate history, geography, and politics of this unique site. It relates the roots of its holiness, describes the succession of temples built on it, and explains how...
Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson
Jewish Lives In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906–1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower...
The Passion of Life: Escaping the Holocaust by Helene J. RW. Wald
I was born in France in 1930, to parents who had emigrated from Poland in 1929.My father pushed my mother to leave Poland because he thought there was no future for them there, due...
An Unkosher Death by Judith Groudine Finkel
Rabbi Deborah Stein fights to keep her congregation together as she tries to solve the mystery of the death of the synagogue’s president. Was it an accident, a suicide or a murder, for which...
The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor
NOW: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in...
Jewish Mysticism: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Kabbalah, Merkabah Mysticism, and Ashkenazi Hasidism by Mari Silva
If you want to explore Jewish Mysticism, then keep reading… Jewish Mysticism is a powerful expression within the Jewish tradition. Rooted in antiquity and veiled in mystery until quite recently, Jewish Mysticism has burst...
Kodesh by Gabi Aharonov
Kodesh is a compilation of vignettes which create a story about an extremist Jewish Orthodox settlement. It follows a variety of characters who choose to live in complete segregation from the outside world, and...
