Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
The book at Amazon and on Kindle An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer...
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Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Seltzer
Edited by Brian Smollett Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience brings together twenty scholars of Modern Jewish history and thought. The essays provide a fresh perspective on several central questions in...
Books posted in November 2014
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of November 2014: Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe, 2004-2012 by Loli Kantor Bus on Jaffa Road: A Story of...
Prayers for the Living by Alan Cheuse
The book at Amazon Prayers for the Living is a novel both grandiose in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions,...
A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner
Edited by Alan J. Avery Peck The book at Amazon In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way...
Rivka’s First Thanksgiving by Elsa Okon Rael
The book at Amazon More than anything, Rivka wants to celebrate Thanksgiving. She has learned all about the holiday in school and knows her family has a lot to be thankful for in America....
Thanksgiving Torah: Jewish Reflections on an American Holiday
Edited by Rabbi Menachem Creditor The book at Amazon There is not one day on the Jewish calendar on which thanksgiving is suspended. So why is the American Thanksgiving day different from all other days?...
Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
The book at Amazon Molly and her parents are a Jewish family who have emigrated from Russia to the United States to escape religious persecution. Molly is the only Jewish child in third grade....
God is In My Backpack: A Young Rabbi’s Epic Adventure by Rabbi Ben Tanny
The book on Kindle God is in My Backpack is the true and exciting story of Rabbi Ben Tanny – who at 25, after only three years of working, quits the pulpit to travel...
Out of the Shoebox by Yaron Reshef
Out of the Shoebox is a fascinating journal that reads like a detective story, comes across as an imaginative quest into the past, yet is the true personal story of the writer, Yaron Reshef....
