The Riddle of the Trees by Marc S. Perlman
At the same time that a physicist is murdered in a Belarusian forest by a KGB agent, American Jack Miller boards a flight to Eastern Europe, where he hopes to learn what caused an...
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Pictures of My Desire by Caroline Goldberg Igra
What’s the cost of pursuing one’s passion? Nate is searching for a lost painting looted from his Jewish ancestors during the Holocaust. He’s convinced that its discovery is the key to restoring his family,...
The Faithful Harlot by Elizabeth Clifford Murphy
During the Collapse of the Bronze Age, 1251 BCE to 1240 BCE How and why did a beautiful “harlot” help Joshua conquer the idol-worshipping, walled Canaanite city of Jericho soon after the formerly enslaved...
Suicides, Secrets, and Sacred Questions: Reading Beyond the Pain
Thoughts on “Here There Is No Why” by Philip Graubart Pain can be a powerful driving force in one’s actions, both in how it motivates certain behaviors and how it guides actions to avoid...
The Silversmith’s Secret by Stephen A. Seche
In April 1949, gifted silversmith Moishe Azani presses a note into the hand of an American pilot who has just delivered hundreds of Yemeni Jews like himself to the Promised Land of Israel. For...
Here There Is No Why by Philip Graubart
Did Chaim Lerner, acclaimed Israeli author and Holocaust survivor, kill himself in 1983, thirty-eight years after surviving Auschwitz? If so, was it traumatic memories finally catching up to him? Or despair over Holocaust denialism?...
Style, story and sincerity: Thoughts on “The Immigrant” by Frederic Petrovsky
The first thing that grabbed me in Frederic Petrovsky’s novel was its style. The sense of awe stayed with me as I kept reading the book and noticed how it became versatile and always...
Crooked Lines: A Single Mom’s Jewish Journey by Jenna Zark
When you part company with the life you’ve been living, how do you start a new one?While trying to sort out the answer to this question–along with the question of what being Jewish meant...
Experience Is the Angled Road by R. Barbara Gitenstein
Memoir of an Academic While Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic is about leadership, it is not a handbook on how to be a leader. When her parents moved from New...
Hanna by Magali Jeger
AMSTERDAM, 1941. Hanna is a young Jewish woman who is eager to have a child of her own, despite the harrowing conditions the family is facing. Nine months later, Hanna and her husband, Nico,...
