November 2016 Jewish Book Carnival
The November Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by me, Heidi Rabinowitz, at The Book of Life. You can see the Carnival at...
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The Vanisher Variations: A Jewish Regency Mystery by Libi Astaire
Jewish Regency Mysteries Book 4 There’s trouble afoot in Regency London’s Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes—until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair of amateur sleuths: General...
Kabbalat Shabbat: The Grand Unification by Debra Band
As Sabbath arrives on Friday evening, Jewish tradition exults in the completion of Creation. Kabbalat Shabbat: the Grand Unification offers vivid new Hebrew and English illuminated paintings, translations and commentary on the full Friday...
The Holocaust: History and Memory by Jeremy M. Black
Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking...
This Was from God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History by Jerome Yehuda Gellman
Publicly or secretly, traditional Jews increasingly doubt the historical reliability of the Torah. Here, Gellman provides an “old-fashioned” Jewish theology for accepting the contemporary critique of Torah and history. Gellman presents an outline of...
October 2016 Jewish Book Carnival
The October Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Rivka Levy at Emunaroma. You can see the Carnival at http://www.emunaroma.com/blog/octobers-jewish-book-carnival . You’ll find...
The English Teacher by Yiftach Reicher Atir
After attending her father’s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to...
Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation by Jerome Napthaly Shem-Tov
This research follows the history ofthe Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as confrontation. The Acco Festival is presented as a borderland that...
Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War by Alona Frankel
Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona’s parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who...
Sifting through Ashes: Words & Images by Bruce Gendelman, Robert B. Miller
In August 2015, Robert Miller and Bruce Gendelman toured sites of the Holocaust s atrocities. Led by the former Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism and a Catholic priest, and accompanied by survivors...
