New Jewish Books
The 2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award BLOG TOUR will take place Feb. 8-12, showcasing interviews with the gold and silver medal winning authors and illustrators! Visit the participating blogs ON or AFTER the blog...
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by...
A Holocaust Memoir: In a concentration camp for Jewish criminals, the youngest inmate tells the camp’s story. Based on the author’s own experience, as a teenage partisan interned in a concentration camp in his...
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in January 2016 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of January 2016: Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse...
Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a...
The breathtaking memoir by a member of “Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women’s Studies. In the Jewish tradition, Lilith’s punishment for rejecting Adam and disobeying God is to give birth to one hundred demons at twilight every night. These demons travel the land,...
The January Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Marie Cloutier at The Boston Bibliophile at http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2016/01/jewish-book-carnival.html. You’ll find links to Jewish book...
by Megan Hart, KK Hendin, Stacey Agdern, Jennifer Gracen It’s definitely not love at first sight for Amanda and her cute but mysterious new neighbor, Ben. Can a Chanukah miracle show them that getting...
