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
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?
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.
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72nd National Jewish Book Award Winners | Jewish Book Council
72nd National Jewish Book Award Winners | Jewish Book Council
— Read on www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/72nd-national-jewish-book-award-winners
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.
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
Jewish Asian American Stories | Jewish Book Council
Jewish Asian American Stories | Jewish Book Council
— Read on www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/jewish-asian-american-stories
A Place to Call Home – Tablet Magazine
The Australian series, set in the aftermath of World War II, portrays religious life (and Jews) with bracing sincerity
— Read on www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/a-place-to-call-home
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