Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you…
The 54 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2023
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The 54 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in October 2023
Heck yes I do. “Doroga uhodit v dal”, aka “The road goes into the distance” by Alexandra Brushtein was the quintessential coming of age story of a Jewish girl at the turn of the 20th century in Czarist Russia. It was a memoir of the author’s growing up and experiencing antisemitism, growth of communism and social class frictions that increasingly led to violence in pre revolution Russia. This book was a childhood favorite of my mom’s which is how a copy ended up in our home library. .
I loved this book so much that when it was accidentally given away to the local Catholic Church (the irony of that does not escape me) when we were packing for immigration, I threw such a monumental fit that my dad went and got the book back. And now it sits on my shelf in my own family library stamped with logo of the Kostyol of Saint Florian of Shargorod.
Even though I rarely read it, it’s yet another link to my childhood and memories of my connection with my mama.
Fabulous read – One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank
I think this was probably the best book I’ve read this year, perhaps one of my very favorite Jewish stories of the last few years. . As an Ashkenazi Jew, my knowledge of pre war and Holocaust Sephardi Jewish experience has been sadly lacking and frankly, barely existent, One Hundred Saturdays made a great way in changing that, I don’t think I can find a single thing to complain about, dislike, or otherwise negatively speak about his absolute gem of a book. I desperately want to meet Stella, or at least listen to her speak because Michael Frank was able to make her voice shine through every single word of this book, he was able to paint such a vivid portrait of Jewish life in Rhodes that I physically hurt when the timeline moved the pendulum closer and closer to the war years.
This is a must read for any person who has any humanity and desire to learn about Jews as real, vibrant citizens of the world and to truly understand what we lost in our world with the Holocaust and all the death that it wrought on the world. Read it, read it, read it. Also, Stella is amazing.
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Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story by Peter Zheutlin
Ride away on a ’round-the-world adventure of a lifetime—with only a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver—in this trascendent novel inspired…
Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story by Peter Zheutlin
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Cousins’ Club by Warren Alexander
When the matriarch of the least successful Jewish family in America gets tired of their misfortune, she consults mystical texts for help. Determined …
Cousins’ Club by Warren Alexander
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Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz
The author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection returns with an unforgettable account of her late mother’s childhood in Nazi-occupied …
Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz
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The 83 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2021
Here is the list of the 83books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2021. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take …
The 83 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in May 2021
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A Land Like You by Tobie Nathan
Translator: Joyce Zonana Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, …
A Land Like You by Tobie Nathan
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