I Escaped from Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba
The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews Editors: Robin Vrba, Nikola Zimring Today, April 21 is Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah, aka...
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A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
Today, April 21 is Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah, aka Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. I commemorate it with posting about Shoah related books. A Delayed Life is the breathtaking memoir that tells the story...
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
Today, April 21 is Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah, aka Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. I commemorate it with posting Shoah related books. Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous figure in...
Devil Darling Spy by Matt Killeen
It’s 1940, and Sarah Goldstein is hiding in plain sight as Ursula Haller, the Shirley Temple of Nazi high society. She helps the resistance by spying on Nazi generals at cocktail parties in Berlin,...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers...
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language...
Keep Jarden Jewish Bookshop Alive in Cracow Poland
From the fundraiser on GoFundme by Erica Lehrer, author of several Jewish-Polish books, including Lucky Jews. Help save the Jarden Jewish Bookshop with a donation today. With your help, we can keep the doors...
Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Adam Teller
A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of...
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their...
Positive Judaism by Darren Levine
Learn how to increase happiness and well-being for yourself, for your family, for the world–Jewishly. Positive Judaism offers readers of all backgrounds a pathway to enhanced well-being and happiness. Drawing on three thousand years of...
