Emerald Ark: Memories of a Jewish Irish Youth by Theo Garb
Editor: Michael Garb Who ever heard of an Irish Jew? My late father, Theo Garb, grew up amid the threat and, ultimately, the anguish of WWII and the Holocaust. Emerald Ark, Memories of a...
Jewish Book World Blog
The 54 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2023
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning by Erica Brown
Ecclesiastes (in Hebrew, Kohelet) has long been viewed as the great existential work of the Hebrew Bible, containing the famous cry “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” As part of a search for enduring...
Ellie’s Deli: Wishing on Matzo Ball Soup! by Lisa Greenwald
Illustrator: Galia Bernstein From Lisa Greenwald, the beloved author of the TBH and Friendship List series, comes a new series about a girl trying to save her family’s deli. Ellie’s family owns the town...
The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely and suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing...
Beyond the Blocs by David Makovsky
Jewish Settlement East of Israel’s Security Barrier and How to Avert the Slide to a One-State Outcome Springtime in Israel has been marked by instability, from a spate of deadly terrorist attacks to the...
Molly The Menorah by C.E. Grossman
Illustrator: Anna Perevalova Join Molly the Menorah on a heartwarming Hanukkah adventure capturing the spirit and traditions of the Festival of Lights. Follow Molly as she shares the magical story of Hanukkah, from the...
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular...
United in Diversity by Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Olaf Glöckner
Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective Europäisch-Jüdische Studien – Beiträge What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews and...
Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust by Anna Koch
The Modern Jewish Experience Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries...
