Books posted in June and July 2015
Here is the list of books that made it here during the months of June and July 2015: Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone After the Holocaust: In spite of everything, I remain...
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Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
Two young sisters set out for fame and fortune in mid-twentieth century America—but this is only the surface story of the funny, sad, and fascinating journey Iris and Eva take in Amy Bloom’s new...
The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris
In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a...
Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler edited by Helen Epstein and Wilma Iggers
Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job...
Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History by Marc B. Shapiro
In this long-awaiting book, Marc Shapiro offers hundreds of examples where students, family members or printers have chosen to rewrite the past ‘by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit...
When the Diamonds Were Gone: A Jewish Refugee Comes of Age in America in the 1940s by Julian Padowicz
After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian’s beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to...
The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia by Julien Hirszhaut / Valerie Schatzker
Part One: The Jewish Oil Magnates: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker Part Two: The Jewish Oil Magnates, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut The near-annihilation of Europe’s Jews in the Second World War destroyed not...
The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics – The Noahide Laws by Dr. Rabbi Shimon Dovid Cowen
The United States Congress President in 1991 endorsed a set of seven universal ethical principles, known as the Noahide Laws, as the “bedrock of society since the dawn of civilization” and as values “upon...
The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games by Ron Kaplan
Having grown from 390 athletes from fourteen countries to nine thousand athletes from seventy-eight countries, the Maccabiah Games (or the “Jewish Olympics,” as it has come to be known) continue to gain popularity. The...
The First to be Destroyed: The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Beginning of the Final Solution
By Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska, Tomasz Kawski, Witold Medykowski Edited by Tuvia Horev The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next...
