Books posted in September 2018
Below is the list of the 54 books that I posted on this site in September 2018. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page...
Jewish Book World Blog
Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother...
Turning Points in Jewish History by Marc J. Rosenstein
Examining the entire span of Jewish history by focusing on thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people’s experience from biblical times through the present—essentially the most important events in the life of the Jewish...
Bad Rabbi And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories....
Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic by Moshe Idel
“Idel’s book has broken new ground in the study of the mystical Judaism of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By applying what he calls the panoramic approach, in contrast to the...
Those Who Knew by Idra Novey
On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a...
Yes, I Can!: A Book About Learning From Everyone by Hindy Kviat & Chaya Leah Lefkowitz
Len Epstein, illustrator Children are so curious and excited about the grown up world. They love to see firefighters, police officers, teachers and doctors at work! They dream of flying like a pilot or...
Gathering of Angels by Morris B. Margolies
A Gathering of Angels: Angels in Jewish Life and Literature looks at Jewish history in a unique way–through the eyes of angels. A rabbi and a scholar, Morris B. Margolies pores through nearly three...
What Are the Ten Commandments? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Tim Foley, illustrator Not just about Moses, whose origin story leaves open questions, this book looks back at the time when the commandments were written, how the belief in one all-powerful God set the...
Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov by Moshe Rosman
This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer―known as the Ba’al Shem Tov, or the Besht―the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism....
