Book review

Some stories in One Day in October feel almost cinematic in their tales of dramatic heroism and last-minute, miraculous turnarounds rivaling Hollywood movies.

“The forces that drove Arabs in Hebron to slaughter their Jewish neighbors in 1929,” she writes, “were identical to the forces behind October 7.”

Commemorating the 76 years of the State of Israel, the book is a collection of 76 kosher recipes divided into 10 sections.

This is both positive and a challenge for readers; it’s dense, meticulous, and sometimes overwhelming.

Janice Weizman’s "Our Little Histories" is an ambitiously crafted novel which acts on one level as a blending of world events with the experiences of a typical Eastern European Jewish family saga.

Ruth Behar tells the stories of four generations of 12-year-old Sephardi girls in a single family over a 500-year period. Music, poetry, and food all play significant roles in the interwoven stories.

Now, 36 years later, Rabinovich republishes Jerusalem on Earth in a revised edition lavishly illustrated with photographs.

Reviewing: On Duty: The Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust; Living among the Dead; Irena’s Gift; and Holocaust Heroines.

At a time of uncertainty about how the Gaza conflict can be brought to a satisfactory conclusion, Liberating Gaza offers a clear path forward. This is indeed a book for the times.

Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God is a definitive, evidence-based examination of one of the world’s worst, most active, and most widespread criminal and terrorist groups.