The Broken Vase by Yaffa Klugerman
On a sunny May afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, Yaffa Klugerman’s 14-year-old son, Dov, crossed the street from his school to his home and was hit by a car. He was rushed to the...
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Planting Seeds of the Divine by Yiscah Smith
Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice Experiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within us,...
Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? by Michal Oron
The Eighteenth-Century Ba’al Shem of London Translated by Edward Levin With an introduction by Todd M. Endelman The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba’al Shem of...
Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews by Bea Lurie, Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs
The remarkable story of Sol Lurie, a child survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, who continues to be a beacon of hope. After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just...
The Red House by Mary Morris
Award-winning novelist Mary Morris weaves together an unsolved family mystery, a poignant coming-of-age story, and a little-known corner of World War II history in this lyrical novel of family, loss and, ultimately, love. Thirty...
Laughing in Yiddish by Jamie Wendt
“To tell a long story short, Papa says, / and then proceeds to tell bits of a long story.” Poet Jamie Wendt does the same in her new collection Laughing in Yiddish, and through...
The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives by Victoria Aarons (Editor)
This comprehensive collection considers Jewish women graphic novelists and the richly figured ways in which Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place: the spaces―emotional, geographical, psychological―that women inhabit. Through the intersections...
Broken Castle by Jack J. Wyatt
A WWII Mystery Thriller with a Modern Twist Broken Castle is perfect for fans of Steve Berry, Robert Harris, and early Dan Brown. Jack J. Wyatt delivers a taut, character-driven thriller where buried truths...
The 36 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org between December 2024 and March 2025
Here are the 36 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org between December 2024 and March 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the...
Quadruple synergies: thoughts on Art of Making Kosher Wine by Dr. Barry Nadel
“Synergy” is such an overused word in the business world that I am hesitant to use it. However, I did not find a better one to describe what occurred to me while reading “The...
