Bookpleasures' Sections

No categories found.

Judaica



    Author: Valerie Farber
    Publisher: Falcon Books
    ISBN: 976-0-9816058-0-7

    American born author Valerie Farber, who now makes her home in Hashmonaim Israel, has penned an absorbing novel that you can easily get lost in. She has accomplished this feat not just by weaving her City of Refuge: A Biblical Novel of the Ancient Past expertly, but also by constructing a time and place in such a way that we believe every detail of the landscape is real



    Author: Greg Dawson
    Publisher: Pegasus Books
    ISBN: 978-1-60598-045-4

    Rarely am I able to read a book in one sitting, however Greg Dawson’s Hiding in the Spotlight was the exception. 
    In Hiding in the Spotlight Dawson narrates the story of his mother, Zhanna Arshanskaya, who was a Holocaust survivor and an extraordinary pianist.



    Author: Kim Ablon Whitney
    ISBN 978-0-375-85219-0
    Publisher: Alfred Knopf


    The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis is the Titanic of the Holocaust.





    Author: Shulamit Lapid
    Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson
    ISBN:
    13 978 1 59264 230 4
    Publisher: Toby Press


    Thanks to Philip Simpson's excellent translation, I was able to easily read Shulamit Lapid's Valley of Strength, the fascinating saga of Rosh Pina.





    Author: Paul R. Finch
    ISBN: 978-9800739-3-5

    Paul R.Finch’s controversial The Passover Papers: Controversy, Myth, Fairy Tales, and Nonsense is likely to either dazzle you or offend you depending on your beliefs and perhaps even your religion.




    Author: Michael Karpin

    ISBN: 978-0-470-17373-2

    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

    It is difficult to conceive just how Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty was written. It is just over four hundred pages in size including very extensive footnotes, yet it is huge in its accomplishment. And this is exactly what Israeli television and news reporter Michael Karpin was able to pull off when he wrote about an Ashkenazi family, the Backenroths, dating back to 1350.




    Author: Jerry J. Pollock, Ph.D

    ISBN: 978-0-9817212-0-0

    I have to confess that notwithstanding that it takes some time to absorb all of the book’s material with its raw power and harsh originality, patient readers will find, as I have, that in the end it is all very beneficial and meaningful. In fact, by the time you’re done reading this intelligent narrative, you may even believe the Messiah interviews actually happened!



    Author: Dave Clarke

    ISBN: 978-0615227474

    Publisher: Hologram Publishing

    Author Dave Clarke spins a fascinating tale of a grieving daughter’s accidental discovery of a previously unknown and fabulously valuable Chagall painting, found among the huge collection of old books left by the young woman’s recently deceased mother.



    Author: Jon Entine

    ISBN: 10: 0-446-58063-5: 13:978-0-446-58063-2

    Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

    A fascinating narrative


    Author: Marek Halter

    Translated by Michael Bernard

    ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-158-1

    ISBN 10: 1-59264-158-X

    Historical fiction has never been so exciting under the expert penmanship of Marek Halter where believable stories unfold at a quick and exhilarating pace. He takes you right into the action of the Wind of the Khazars from the first page on and does not let you down until the last word.


    Most Popular Reviews Since Nov. 2008'

    No popular articles found.