You Should Have Known Book Giveaway
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees...
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City of the Sun by Juliana Maio
Cairo, Egypt 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as ”Paris on the Nile” plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than...
A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
A graduate of Berkeley’s program in environmental economics and policy, Joshua Fattal is an activist and organizer focused on sustainable development. Along with co-authors Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, he has spoken at universities,...
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
In this cultural history – the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series “The Story of the Jews” – Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia,...
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul by Daniel Gordis
Menachem Begin—maker of peace with Egypt, Nobel Prize winner, welcomer of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel—was shunned by David Ben-Gurion and renounced as a terrorist. In this sympathetic biography, Daniel Gordis, a prominent American-Israeli...
Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman
Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political...
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,...
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...
