Books

Hella Mauzer is a fictional former policewoman in Helsinki, who now works as a private investigator.  She is asked in 1953 by her old colleague to do a background check on a man who...

In 1987, the television movie Escape from Sobibor made quite an impression because, similar to the stories of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto and the movie Defiance in 2008, about the exploits of the Bielski Brothers and...

I am what some people call a “compulsive reader.”  If it is printed, and in front of me, I will read it.  Flyers.  Cereal boxes.  Newspapers.  Blogs.  And most of all, books, books, and...

SAN DIEGO – This novel about the friendship that forms between two preteen girls in a time of great stress hits many important issues.  The danger of radiation from a nuclear power plant.  Government...

You might have read Sir Arthur’s books, watch the tv programs and the movies made from his stories but, if you have never read it in Yiddish -and in such clean good Yiddish- you...

In his new book, Schlepping and Schmoozing, (volume 1 of two) Harrison takes us by the hand, along the 5 freeway from the US-Mexico border to Old Town, discovering in each exit a trace,...

Argentine mystery writer Sergio Olguín has conjured a hard-hitting Jewish investigative journalist Verónica Rosenthal as his protagonist in a mystery that begins with a traffic accident victim’s missing wife and child and eventuates into an investigation into illegal adoptions and sales of human body parts.

Here is a Holocaust memoir that is so well told that you feel like you are sitting in the room with Harry Lenga, listening to him as he relates the meaningful episodes of his...

Sabine Fröhlich grew up a Catholic in Breslau, Germany, but her ancestry was Jewish.  Along with her parents and her older brother Andreas, she was declared to be a Jew according to the Nazis’...

Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5, Chapter 19, Exit 14B (Cesar Chavez Parkway); Chicano Park  Turn left at Cesar Chavez Parkway exit, and murals will be at left side under the overpass. One of the...