The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. by Gina B. Nahai
The book at Amazon and on Kindle From Tehran to Los Angeles, The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. tells the story of the Soleymans, an Iranian Jewish family tormented for decades by Raphael’s Son,...
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Hitler’s Priest by Salvatore Tagliareni
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Hitler’s Priest is a gripping story about the journey of two families during the Holocaust.The story centers on Hans Keller a young German architect invited by Josef Goebbels...
All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Almost forty contributors from three continents—men and women, scholars and poets, rabbis and theologians, representing all Jewish denominations and perspectives—examine the tension between Israel as a particular...
Interview: David Bezmozgis (Jewish Book Council)
Q: How does The Betrayers continue or, perhaps, depart from what has engaged your work in the past? David Bezmozgis: It’s true that the original inspiration for the novel had to do with Natan...
Enchantress: A Novel of Rav Hisda’s Daughter by Maggie Anton
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Fantastic tales of demons and the Evil Eye, magical incantations, and powerful attractions abound in Enchantress, a novel that weaves together Talmudic lore, ancient Jewish magic, and...
My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War by Anne Sinclair
The book at Amazon and on Kindle French journalist Anne Sinclair had never been particularly interested in her mother’s side of the family until a series of events—a hostile immigration clerk challenging the ‘Frenchness’...
The War on Women in Israel: How Religious Radicalism Is Smothering the Voice of a Nation by Elana Maryles Sztokman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Across Israel, women are being threatened as a rising Orthodox Jewish faction seeks to suppress them. In this exposé, leading women’s activist Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates the...
The Day of Atonement by David Liss
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Sebastião Raposa is only thirteen when his parents are unjustly imprisoned, never to be seen again, and he is forced to flee Portugal lest he too fall...
Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready...
The Garden of Letters by Alyson Richman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Portofino, Italy, 1943. A young woman steps off a boat in a scenic coastal village. Although she knows how to disappear in a crowd, Elodie is too...
