The Last Woman Standing by Thelma Adams
Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona’s famous lawmen. She leaves her San...
Jewish Book World Blog
July 2016 Jewish Book Carnival
The July Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Book Q&A’s with Deborah Kalb. You can see the Carnival at http://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2016/07/jewish-book-carnival-for-july-2016.html. You’ll find...
What America Owes the Jews, What Jews Owe America
By Dara Horn, Norman Podhoretz, Rick Richman , Jonathan Sarna, Meir Soloveichik To what extent was the American Revolution an achievement of Judaism? How did Zionism win over American Jews? Is there an American...
Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
The hilarious behind-the-scenes story of two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—the cultural sensation that changed television and bled into the real world, altering the lives of everyone it touched....
Orchestra of Exiles: The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors
By Josh Aronson, Denise George At fourteen, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms Violin Concerto in Vienna— winning high praise from the composer himself, who was there. Instantly famous, Huberman began touring all over the...
Books posted in June and July 2016
Here is the list of the 38 books that I posted on this site during the month of June and July 2016: Accidental Soldier by Dorit Sasson Animals Speak: Stories That Help Children Share Their...
Orthokostá by Thanassis Valtinos
Jane Assimakopoulos (Translator), Stavros Deligiorgis (Translator), Stathis Kalyvas (Foreword) First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style...
The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff
The audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a collection of stories that gives us a fresh take on adolescence, death, sex; on being Jewish-ish; and on finding...
The Book of Esther by Emily Barton
From Tablet Magazine Can Jewish Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings? Emily Barton’s ‘richly imagined’ new novel ‘The Book of Esther’ projects fantasies of Jewish power onto a Tolkien-like land By Adam Kirsch Jewish writers...
Judenstaat by Simone Zelitch
Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later,...
