Category: Jewish History

October 6, 2010

Exodus by Leon Uris ** (of 4)

Still singed by Holocaust crematoria, Jewish rebels fight to throw off the yoke of British imperialism in Palestine. This is a book that launched a...

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July 20, 2010

See Under: Love by David Grossman ** (of 4)

I wish I could have followed the story of Momik, a nine-year-old son of Holocaust survivors trying to make sense of the adults who have...

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July 15, 2010

Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple

A journalist who traveled from childhood memories to adult memories from urban NY to Austria’s highest peaks in search of Hans Breuer, Yiddish folk singer...

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July 14, 2010

Nineteen forty-eight by Benny Morris

A revisionist history of the first Arab-Israeli War. In Pelletier Library.

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July 14, 2010

The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein

The author, now in his 90s, recalls his impoverished boyhood in a British mill town, on a street where Jews lived on one side and...

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July 1, 2010

The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffery Hantover ** (of 4)

A Sixteenth Century Jew from the Venetian ghetto travels to the east Indies to trade for Jewels so we can compare the lives of Jews...

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June 29, 2010

Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb **** (of 4)

Adolph Eichmann, architect, planner, and executor of “The Final Solution” for the Jews escaped to Argentina at the end of the World War II. It...

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June 22, 2010

The World to Come by Dara Horn *** (of 4)

On the plus side I learned a lot about Chagall. Dara Horn writes well. She channels the great Yiddish authors like Peretsky, Singer, Sholom Aleichem,...

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June 22, 2010