Jewish Book World Blog
Books posted in August 2016
Here is the list of the 21 books that I posted on this site during the month of August 2016: Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky Benghazi-Bergen-Belsen by Yossi Sucary Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary...
Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation by Maya Balakirsky Katz
In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in...
Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon
Set in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both mothers to the same unforgettable girl—a big, heartrending novel from award-winning writer Anna Solomon One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks...
Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend
Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an...
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky
Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky’s perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century....
The Rabbi Saved by Hitler’s Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue by Bryan Mark Rigg
When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped in the besieged city. The Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, was among them....
August 2016 Jewish Book Carnival
The August Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Yael Shahar at Memory & Redeption. You can see the Carnival at http://www.damaged-mirror.com/august-jewish-book-blog-carnival/ ....
Cousin Joseph: A Graphic Novel by Jules Feiffer
Meet Big Sam Hannigan. Tough, righteous, a man on a mission. Only problem is, it’s the wrong mission. With the New York Times bestseller Kill My Mother, legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer began an epic...
Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts by Caroline Heller
The European Division and the Hebrew Language Table of the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republicpresent READING CLAUDIUS: A Memoir in Two Parts Book talk by author Caroline Heller...
