The Columbus Code by Mike Evans
When Christopher Columbus set out to discover the New World, was it because he wanted to serve the king and queen of Spain or because he wanted to escape them? Did he have stronger...
Jewish Book World Blog
Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel by Einat Wilf
From the United Nations to the media, and from academia to international NGOs, the attacks on Israel’s legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewish people are growing. To win this war of words, Israel’s...
Podcast: Enchantress, Rav Hisda’s Daughter
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features an interview with author Maggie Anton about her book of women, Talmud, and sorcery: Enchantress. This historical fiction/fantasy novel...
Searching for Bubbe Fischer: The Path to Mah Jongg Wisdom by Karen Gooen
Playing mah jongg is simple. Excelling at it is another matter entirely. Author Karen Gooen had a plan: if she could find the right mentor, the quintessential mah jongg maven, then perhaps she could...
Those Secrets We Keep by Emily Liebert
Bestselling author Emily Liebert burst onto the scene in 2010 with her wildly popular book Facebook Fairytales, a media sensation that sparked intense conversation about the positive power of Facebook. Since then, she’s captivated...
September 2015 Jewish Book Carnival
The September Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Nat Bernstein at The Prosen People, the blog of the Jewish Book Council, http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/jewish-book-carnival-september-2015/....
A Damaged Mirror: A story of memory and redemption by Yael Shahar and Ovadya ben Malka
Alex was seventeen years old when he was deported together with his family to Birkenau. His mother and younger sister were gassed on arrival. Selected to work in the Birkenau Sonderkommando, Alex lived on,...
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Jan Gross’s hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian’s disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens...
Books posted in September 2015
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of September 2015: All About Rosh Hashanah by Judyth Groner and Madeline Wikler The Ambassador by Yehuda Avner and Matt Rees Avigail by...
Avigail by Chana Zauderer
Illustrated by Mary Abadi Avigail, being the youngest of four, is always last. Even more, she always gets her sisters old hand-me-downs. It’s only when her aunt unexpectedly pays a visit that Avigail gets...
