Posted in General on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in General on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday – My Story, by Hadassah Rosensaft is an incredible Holocaust memoir, and one that exhibits Rosensaft’s strength and courage under the most adverse of circumstances.
Rosensaft was deported to Auschwitz, along with her husband, five-year old son and other family members. Her husband and son, and most of her family members were sent to the [...]
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I am a book store lover, as most of you know. One of my recent purchase while I was away was a fantastic book of photographs and essays. A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life From the Pages of the Forward is an incredible historical and photographic chronology of Jewish Life.
From the Lower East [...]
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Once again, I found myself reading a Holocaust memoir in which a surviving parent did not want to reveal too much information, if any, about their Holocaust experience to their child/children. The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home, by Erin Einhorn, is a novel written by a daughter whose mother, [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged A.S. Byatt, Books, fiction, Litrature, Novels, Possession, Writers on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read Possession, by A.S. Byatt when it first came out a few years back, on an airplane on my way to England.
The passion between the lines, in this wonderfully conceived and crafted book of both prose and poetry, had me totally possessed and engrossed in the multiple and simultaneous stories.
I like the [...]
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The Novel, Plum Wine, turned out to be less than what I had expected. I found the story line to be slow going, and thought the characters lacked depth. It took all I could to get through the book, without putting it down and not continuing on.
Angela Davis-Gardner’s book, filled with love and [...]
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Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Books, Female Authors, fiction, Genocide, Geraldine Brooks, Haggadahs, historical fiction, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Jewish Historical Books, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Life, Jews, Judaism, Novels, novels The Inquisition, Passover Haggadahs, People of the Book, Pesach Haggadahs, Religion, Religious Books, Sarajevo Haggadah, Sarajevo history, Sarajevo siege, Writers on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People of the Book by Pulitzer Prize author Geraldine Brooks is an incredible novel. Although it is fiction, the content is filled with historical information and fact. People of the Book is based on the Jewish Religious book the Sarajevo Haggadah, and its survival through the centuries.
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a factual manuscript/volume, [...]
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“Accidents of fate are rarely fatal accidents, but once in a while they are.”
In The Image is one of those books that evolves through the characters’ coming of age, journeying towards peace and acceptance, and sojourning towards spiritual identity. One young girl (Leora)l learns to accept the death of her best friend, through [...]
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I finished reading the book Giving, by Bill Clinton, a while back. I thought this would be a good book to recommend to those who might want some suggestions how to be productive in the area of “giving“.
Givingtakes on many forms, from monetary to volunteering, and Clinton’s book, shows us avenues through [...]
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