Tag: Book Review
Sherlock Holmes and an anti-Semitic forgery
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer; Minotaur Books, 2019; ISBN 9781250-228956; 235 pages, $25.99.
Star Trek script screenwriter Nicholas Meyer has appropriated the characters of Sherlock Holmes and sidekick Dr. John Watson from the...
Friendship His Key to Survival at Auschwitz
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku; HarperCollins Publishers © 2021; ISBN 9780063-097681; 195 pages, $24.99.
This memoir by Australian centenarian Eddie Jaku departs from memoirs by...
A sensitive Holocaust history for teens
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Albert Marrin, Alfred A. Knopf, 2019; ISBN 9781524-701215l; 334 pages plus 54 pages of notes, bibliography, and index; $19.99
Notwithstanding its title, this...
“ISRESILIENCE: What Israelis Can Teach The World” Available October 15
“ISRESILIENCE: What Israelis can Teach The World,” a collection of riveting true stories about people who survived against all odds and the lessons for us all, will be available on October 15.
Written by Michael...
Time-traveling through Jewish history
River by Shira Nayman; Guernica Editions, 2020; ISBN 9781771-834575; 255 pages; $25.
“River,” in the context of this novel, is a metaphor for the continuity of life.
As Emily, 14, would hear from a wise African man...
Time travel fiction dramatizes first Chanukah
Ah, the joys of time travel! San Diego author Marcia Berneger, a retired teacher, uses this device to imaginatively retell the story of the first Chanukah in A Dreidel in Time, a chapter book for children between the...
Jewish cartoon book delights
Have I Got a Cartoon for You: The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons, edited by Bob Mankoff, 2019: Moment Books, 86 pages, $19.95.
Thirty graphic artists are featured in this delightful 86-page book of...
‘A Trace of Smoke’ set in pre-war Berlin
I downloaded this ebook from Amazon’s Kindle Store in order to have something to read on the plane. I always like to have something to read in my phone-cum-Kindle, as that means I’m not...
Linguist learns of her biological father’s secret past (Book Review)
What Language do I Dream in? by Elena Lappin; HarperCollins, 2017, ISBN 9781554-684632.
As a bilingual speaker of Hebrew and English as well as having some knowledge of French and German, I was intrigued by...
A graphic novel of Jews hunting Nazis
his graphic novel is set shortly before the Six-Day War of 1967 with the action alternating between B’nei Barak, Israel, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. A Haredi Jew in B’nei Barak has nightmares remembering how...