Tagged: Jewish Book Council

The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont

The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont

Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Jan Gross’s hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian’s disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens...

White Matter by Janet Sternburg

White Matter by Janet Sternburg

White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the heart-rending and engrossing story of a close-knit Jewish family of five sisters who had to make some devastating medical decisions in order to keep...

Black Earth by Timothy Snyder

Black Earth by Timothy Snyder

“Indispensable” is an overused term in book reviews, but Timothy Snyder’s analysis of the political, social, intellectual, and historical circumstances that gave rise to and even nourished Hitler’s brilliant madness is truly that. The...

Days of Awe by Lauren Fox

Days of Awe by Lauren Fox

Only a year ago, Isabel Moore was married, the object of adoration of her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short...

Underground in Berlin by Marie Jalowicz Simon

Underground in Berlin by Marie Jalowicz Simon

In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced labor, and extermination. Marie took off her yellow star, turned her...

Let There Be Water by Seth M. Siegel

Let There Be Water by Seth M. Siegel

Life-Saving Lessons from Israel for a Water-Deprived World As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The U.S. government...

Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman

Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman

How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s...

The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner

The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner

A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible Aviya Kushner’s personal experience of rediscovering in translation the Bible she knew by heart in Hebrew. Kushner grew up in a religious Jewish household...