I am a good Jewish girl in the sense that I will love any holiday that involves lots of good food and presents but really, food is sufficient. So if it’s a Jewish holiday or a Christian one, or any other religious tradition, if there’s food, then I’m there. And if there is food and I get leftovers AND presents, I am there with an extra bag 😎
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72nd National Jewish Book Award Winners | Jewish Book Council
72nd National Jewish Book Award Winners | Jewish Book Council
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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.
Best fall titles
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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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