Move Over, Cairo. The Afghan Geniza Will Blow Your Mind.
From Jewniverse First there was the discovery of the Cairo Geniza. And now there’s this. In 2011, a report by Israel’s Channel 2 News told of how foxes scratching in the dirt somewhere in...
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City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens...
Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare’s plays? by John Hudson
From Jewniverse There have been lots of claims over the years that Shakespeare had a ghostwriter. But the suggested writer has never been a Jewish woman—until now. John Hudson – renowned Shakespeare scholar, teacher...
New header image for our social media channels (May 2016)
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in April 2016 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
Jewish Fiction.net’s Seventeenth Issue!
Via email: Welcome to this splendid new issue of Jewish Fiction .net! Here you will find 25 first-rate works of fiction, originally written in Hebrew, German, and English. And in honour of Pesach we bring...
Books posted in April 2016
Here is the list of the 58 books that I posted on this site during the month of April 2016: 1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front...
Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It by Michael Wex
Bagels, deli sandwiches and gefilte fish are only a few of the Jewish foods to have crossed into American culture and onto American plates. Rhapsody in Schmaltz traces the history and social impact of...
A Kabbalistic View of History by Z’Ev Ben Shimon Halevi
Kabbalistic View of History describes the story of humanity and the purpose of Existence in terms of kabbalistic principles. As evolution moves from savagery to civilisation, so the vegetable, animal and human levels of...
The Dinner Party by Brenda Janowitz
This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes, there will be a quick service and then a festive meal afterwards, but this night is different from all other nights. This will be...
Shrink: The Autobiography of a Psychotherapist by Martin Obler, Jed Golden
The wild, autobiographical story of Marty Obler, shrink: his childhood in an extremely poor, dysfunctional family; in a Jewish ghetto in Brownsville, Brooklyn; head of a gang in his youth; fleeing his ghetto world...
