Book review

Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.

"This Is Not a Cholent" contributes to the history and legacy of these refugees and these communities’ cultural and emotional experiences. 

Ziv Koren’s The October 7 War is heavy to pick up and hard to put down. This is not a classic coffee table photography book but it is of lasting importance.

Reading The Lost Orphan Boy spotlights the struggles of the Jewish communities in Arab lands, bringing them to the forefront of our national and personal consciousness.

You will have to be ready to be provoked a little bit (or a lot) and to think more creatively than you usually do about the condition of non-Orthodox Jews in America in our time.

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.