Jewish Book World Blog

Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000

Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000

The book at Amazon For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last...

Yes, It's Possible by Ehud Diskin

Yes, It’s Possible by Ehud Diskin

The book at Amazon Ehud Diskin’s mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF’s most dangerous assignments in...

I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman

I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman

I Carry My Mother is a book-length cycle of poems that explores a daughter’s journey through her mother’s illness and death. From diagnosis through first yahrzeit (anniversary of death), the narrator grapples with what...

Sale: The Silk Code by Paul Levinson

The Silk Code ebook for Kindle, list-priced at $7.99, will be ON SALE for $2.99 (a five dollar saving) from December 30, 2014 through January 2, 2015. Phil D’Amato, a New York City forensic...

On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg

On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg

The book at Amazon and on Kindle In the early 1920s, the Czernitski family escapes anti-Semitism in Russia by im­migrating to Chicago. By the age of ten, Lena Czernitski has experienced many hardships, including...