New Jewish Books
Review of The Courtyard by Benjamin Parket, Alexa Morris What do people lose in a war? Ultimately, many lose their lives. However, the list of what else can be lost includes home, safety, security,...
New Jewish Fiction Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Charley Bernstein works in the London art...
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Worl War II Before the start of WWII, some 93,000 Jews lived in Latvia. Almost half of them, 43,000 people, resided in Riga. Only 14,000 survived WWII. Valentīna Freimane’s memoir Farewell...
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before...
Breaking my Family’s Silence surrounding the Holocaust Researching family history means stepping into the unknown; Nicola discovered that after an old passport (issued in 1935) unexpectedly fell into her life in 2004. The passport...
My Grandmother’s Fight to Survive Holocaust Survivor True Stories While imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück, 13-year-old Ruth Krautwirth maintains a sense of dignity even as she struggles to stay alive. As a grandmother, Ruth...
In the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris, one Jewish family is protected by their working-class community. It’s 1937, the eve of World War II, and young Bernard lives with his Polish-immigrant family in a working-class...
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII Luba is born into a poor Jewish family in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She provides a unique lens into a now vanished world, as she describes her childhood in...
Holocaust Survivor True Stories The authors of this striking memoir, Hiding in Holland, survivor Max Rothschild and his daughter Shulamit Reinharz, tell the story of a Jewish man who saved his life repeatedly during...
After all they went through. Stories New Jewish Fiction Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century. In eleven compelling stories inheritors...
