Review of “Beni’s War” by Tammar Stein
Infotainment is a term usually restricted to journalism and news. This is the term though that came to my mind as I was reading Beni’s War, because it was entertaining while informative. It is...
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Thought and the Perception of Time by Eliezer A. Trachtenberg
Thought and the Perception of Time: Aristotle, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and the Babylonian Talmud analyzes thought using two models, demonstrating that while Greeks think step by step, sequentially, like in a logical syllogism,...
The Politics of American Jews by Herbert F. Weisberg
Jewish voting is distinctive and paradoxical. Stereotypes about the voting habits of American Jews include that they vote at unusually high levels, that they’re liberal, that they vote for Democratic candidates without regard to...
Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year, this is the definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake serving grandmother who became the fourth prime...
The 84 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2020
Here is the list of the 84 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World
Editors: Ariel Evan Mayse, Sam Berrin Shonkoff Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion,...
The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngart—about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it...
The Hunt for Eichmann:A Story of Daring, Healing, and The Hand of Hashem by Rabbi Avraham Ohayon
In May 1960, Israeli agents captured Adolf Eichmann, who had played a central role in the Nazi plan to annihilate six million European Jews, and brought him to Israel to stand trial. In The Hunt...
Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Boyarin
An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York’s oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning New York City’s Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent...
Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler by Jeffrey Koerber
Modern Jewish History Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons,...
