Translator: Jes­si­ca Cohen Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life’s work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family’s perfect façade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is determined to help her da ..read more

Translator: Dalit Shmueli Winner of The 2023 National Jewish Book Awards for Hebrew Fiction in Translation. Discover a rare glimpse into the secret world of Mossad spies and terrorists with Operation Bethlehem, a best-seller from Israel. A traumatic anti-Semitic attack during his youth led Daniel, a young French Jew, to immigrate to Israel, where he served in an elite unit and later joined the Mossad. However, his tempestuous personality caused him to lose everything. Now, years later, in complete secrecy, Daniel sets out on a private operation to restore meaning in his life. Daniel infiltrate ..read more

Illustrated highlights from the Judaica Collection of the Library of Congress.   Books Like Sapphires showcases a wide range of Hebraic treasures from the storied collection at the Library of Congress, many of them for the first time. Tracing the history of Judaica collecting in the twentieth-century United States, the book illuminates varied works, telling their stories alongside vibrant color images. These include a unique manuscript about a betrothal scandal in Renaissance Crete, an illustrated Esther Scroll, a poem from 1477 celebrating the new technology of printing, amusing rhy ..read more

Here is the list of the 70 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in March 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site. 101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel by Raquel Ukeles, Hezi Amiur, Yoel Finkelman, Stefan Litt, Samuel Thrope (on this site) Absolutely, Positively Natty by Lisa Greenwald (on this site) Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar (on this site) Adam Unrehearsed by Don Futterman (on this site) Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival by Alfred J. Lakritz (on th ..read more

Translator: Paul Olchváry József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the “lucky” ones, he was sent to the “right,” which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the “Cold Crematorium”―the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution. But as Soviet and Allied troops closed in on the camps, local Nazi commanders―anx ..read more

As the great Mel Brooks said, “ Humor is just another defense against the universe” — and in these chaotic times, an irreverent and chaotic book like When the Rains Came, will definitely help you gird your loins AND laugh your head off. This entertaining collection of flash fiction, has been mysteriously spun out of the very deep, extended, chaotic, intense, personal experiences of a unique, one-of-a-kind person. David Wolinsky is a retired army officer, an entertainment attorney, restaurateur, businessman, a former memeber of Mensa, and currently, a writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest w ..read more

Twelve-year-old Rosie is a musical prodigy whose synesthesia allows her to see music in colors. Her mom has always pushed her to become a concert violinist, but this summer Rosie refuses to play, wanting a “normal” life. Forced to spend the summer with her grandparents, Rosie is excited to meet another girl her age hanging out on their property. The girl is familiar, and Rosie quickly pieces it together: somehow, this girl is her mother, when her mother was twelve. With help from this glitch in time―plus her grandparents, an improv group, and a new instrument―Rosie comes to understand her moth ..read more

The Essential Family-Friendly Traditional Passover Haggadah for a Meaningful and Speedy Seder Jewish Family Passover Collection Illustrator: Maria Sokhatski With its beautiful, minimalistic design and simple, practical layout, The No-Nonsense Haggadah is a must-have at your Passover table. With the full text included in Hebrew and English and accompanied by transliterations for easy reading, your entire family will be able to enjoy a short and efficient Seder night – without compromising on tradition! Short and to the point, this Haggadah holds all the essentials and will keep participants of ..read more

Illustrator: Siona Ben­jamin The Blue Butterfly of Cochin is the story of the ancient Jewish Indian community’s mass immigration to Israel in the 1950s. We follow Leah as she struggles to come to terms with leaving her beloved India and moving to the newly-formed country of Israel. Accompanied by a magical butterfly and through dream-like illustrations, both Leah and the reader, are transported from the lush Indian coastline to the awesome beauty of the Israeli desert. The post The Blue But­ter­fly of Cochin by Ari­ana Mizrahi appeared first on Jewish Book World ..read more

Thoughts on “We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story” by Frank W. Baker with Esther Goldberg Greenberg, Karol Goldberg & Henry Goldberg Illustrator: Tim Ogline Editor: John Shableski I admit I often feel desperate nowadays about significant issues in our world. For example, my emotional side cannot comprehend how the number of Holocaust deniers or minimizers seems to be growing. How can so many people believe that the Shoah did not happen or try to make it a trivial matter? My analytical mind can comprehend the reasons, how the individual and personal drives of neonaz ..read more