Itzik by Chavy Helfgott
Or a Tale of Troubles, Secrets & Adventures in Panama, ‘Frisco and a Rough & Tumble Mining Camp. It’s 1852, and 13-year-old Itzik has a secret. He’s just discovered that his father has lost...
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Call Me Gebyanesh by Arlene Rosenfeld Schenker, Gebyanesh Addisu
Illustrator: Chiara Fedele Gebyanesh Addisu teams up with co-author Arlene Schenker to turn her experiences as a young immigrant struggling in a new and strange place into a universal story about the importance of...
The Memoir of Ilse Seger: Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister by Melissa Kravetz (Editor)
Epilogue: Mark Brandt Elisabeth “Ilse” Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March...
The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg by Charles Defanti
The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece, which Alfred Kazin called “A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence, and power.” According to...
The 37 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2024
Here are the 37 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
Arthurs: Home of the Nosh by Raegan Steinberg, Alexandre Cohen, Evelyne Eng
A Big Personality Cookbook of Delicious Jewish Favorites A must-have breakfast, brunch, and lunch cookbook brimming with recipes for Jewish comfort food—co-authored by the husband-and-wife team behind Montreal’s famous Arthurs Nosh Bar. Take a...
Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible by Sara Lippmann, Seth Rogoff
Provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers. Lot’s daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an...
The Salvation of Israel: Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans by Jeremy Cohen
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity’s eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of...
A Journey of Memory: Honoring Lives Lost Through History
Thoughts on Stumbling Stones by Bonnie Suchman One hallmark of great literature is its lingering impact on readers, and by that measure, Stumbling Stones is nothing short of a triumph. I read it months...
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits, a deeply moving novel set against the glitz and chaos of early 2000s pop stardom. Equal parts heartfelt family...
