The 107 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2021
Here is the list of the 107 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2021. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a...
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany...
What America Owes the Jews, What Jews Owe America
By Dara Horn, Norman Podhoretz, Rick Richman , Jonathan Sarna, Meir Soloveichik To what extent was the American Revolution an achievement of Judaism? How did Zionism win over American Jews? Is there an American...
The Yiddish Writer and the Siberian Exile
Born Pinkhes Kahanovitsch in 1884 Ukraine, Der Nister—the nom de plume meaning “The Hidden One”—was a widely underappreciated Yiddish writer of staggering talent and ingenuity. Der Nister’s early surrealistic stories were infused with Kabbalah and inspired by...
