Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar’s epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and...
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The 36 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2022
Here is the list of the 36 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2022. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth Behar
Illustrator: Devon Holzwarth A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella’s Tía Fortuna...
January 2018 Jewish Book Carnival
The Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere. The January Jewish Book Carnival has just been posted. This month’s host is Erika Dreifus atthe My Machberet...
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Behar
This book is composted of fascinating vignettes of the community of Jews encountered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birthplace. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five,...
