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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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If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died by Emanuel Rosen

The Holocaust and its aftermath were not often discussed in families of second-generation survivors. In Tel Aviv of the 1960s, Emanuel Rosen grew up …

If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died by Emanuel Rosen

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The Plum Trees by Vic­to­ria Shorr

Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie’s great-uncle …

The Plum Trees by Vic­to­ria Shorr

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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immi­grant House­wives and the Riots that Shook New York City by Scott D. Seligman

In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by …

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immi­grant House­wives and the Riots that Shook New York City by Scott D. Seligman

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