God’ll Cut You Down by John Safran
The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi The book at Amazon and on Kindle A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett...
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Books posted in December 2014
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of December 2014: Asylum City by Liad Shoham Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews by Lynn Davidman Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern...
Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland by Glenn Dynner
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles...
Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews by Lynn Davidman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases...
I am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir
Author: Susan Ecker, Lloyd Ecker The book at Amazon and on Kindle Features more than 90 beautiful color and 120 black and white period illustrations. Part fairy tale, part crime novel, part rags to...
Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Authors: Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister...
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...
Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme by Marcia Goldlist
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Enjoying Genesis: The Bible in Rhyme is the book of Genesis written in rhyming couplets. It is meant for anyone for whom the Bible is important or...
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 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...
