Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hlasko
Robert and Jacob are two down-and-out Polish con men living in Israel in the early 1960s. They’re planning to run a scam on an American widow visiting the country. Robert, who masterminds the scheme,...
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The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should....
February Jewish Book Carnival
It’s been almost a year since Jewish Book Council has hosted a Jewish Book Carnival, and we’re happy to take the reins this month! We’re huge fans of this series, which has been produced...
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and TraumaFederica K. Clementi; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.Brandeis University Press, 2013. 392 pp. $40.00 In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted...
Agnon: The Parable and Its Lesson
The Parable and Its Lesson: A NovellaS. Y. Agnon; James S. Diamond, trans.Stanford University Press, 2014. 176 pp. $19.95 S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew...
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah MirskyYale University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $25.00 Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the...
Philip Schultz: The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
This novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries....
How to Woo a Jew: The Modern Jewish Guide to Dating and Mating
In How to Woo a Jew, your very own Jewish Carrie Bradshaw takes you through each facet of the dating world—from traditional Jewish matchmaking and mixers to modern online dating portals, from honing your...
