Athar by Shlomo Kalo
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...
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New header image for our social media channels (February 2016)
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+) :
Books posted in January 2016
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...
The Zohar Pritzker Edition, Volume Nine by Daniel C. Matt
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...
My Train to Freedom by Ivan A. Backer
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...
Lilith’s Demons by Julie R Enszer
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,...
January 2015 Jewish Book Carnival
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...
Burning Bright: Four Chanukah Love Stories
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...
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman
Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy streets of East London in search of a better life. But Abe’s visions of a privileged apprenticeship in the Sassaporta Brothers’ empire are...
God and Politics in Esther by Yoram Hazony
A political crisis erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics, and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all costs. God and Politics in Esther explores politics and faith....
