Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman
London, 1832: Isabelle Lira may be in distress, but she’s no damsel. Since her father’s death, his former partners have sought to oust her from their joint equity business. Her only choice is to...
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Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World by Christoph Schulte
Translator: Corey Twitchell Jewish Culture and Contexts The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to...
The 66 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2023
Here is the list of the 66 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Inseparable by Faris Cassell
The Hess Twins’ Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children. Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the...
Babylon: A Novel of Jewish Captivity by Michelle Cameron
A multi-generational biblical saga of captivity, romance, faith, and redemption, set against the Judean exile in Babylon. Everything changes for Sarah the day Nebuchadnezzar’s army storms Jerusalem. In an instant, her peaceful life on...
Amusing the Angels by Stewart Florsheim
“In this richly diverse mélange of human lives, many actual and many imagined, Stewart Florsheim embraces the light and the dark much as his beloved Rembrandt employed chiaroscuro to reveal the complexity of a...
Martha Freud: A Biography by Katja Behling
Translator: R. D. V. Glasgow Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived...
The Politzer Saga by Linda A Broenniman
A housefire in 2011. The contents of a box that survives become the catalyst for a quest whose seeds were planted in 1983 – the day Linda Ambrus Broenniman learned that her Catholic father...
Judith Kerr’s Creatures by Judith Kerr
A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith Kerr was one of the best-loved authors...
How To Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum
Translator: Daniella Zamir The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home,...
