Memoir

Released captive Eli Sharabi speaks about memoir 'Hostage' on his time as abductee in Gaza

The English translation of his memoir will be published this coming October 7, on the two-year anniversary of his kidnapping. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Released hostage Eli Sharabi signs his book “Hostage," during an event in Modi'in, July 2, 2025
The Professor, Mervyn S. Gotsman, at home in front of his extensive library.

'Affairs of the Heart': Memoirs of renowned Israeli cardiologist Mervyn S. Gotsman

I have been privileged to know the Professor for many years, and when he published Affairs of the Heart, I felt that his memories and story needed to be told.

|BySTUART S. GHERMAN
Rose (Rochel) Feierstein Schulder.

'My Grandmother’s Candlesticks': Honoring a grandma who resisted assimilation

As a grandmother herself, the author, Diane Schulder Abrams, speaks for a generation of contemporary female elders who led extraordinary careers while keeping their Jewish values front and center.

|ByLIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI
‘SONNY BOY: A Memoir,’ by Al Pacino.

Al Pacino writes in ‘Sonny Boy’ about life, love, death - opinion

This book was written with what Pacino calls the “commitment and energy... and considerable help and persistence” of Dave Itzkoff, a former NYT culture reporter and author.

|ByRICK KOGAN

Natan Sharansky’s memoirs are a made-in-Jerusalem story

In freedom, serving in Israel’s cabinet and at the Jewish Agency, Sharansky remained a perpetual dissident.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020ByGIL TROY
Natan Sharansky (left) and Gil Troy receive the first copies of their book ‘Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People.’

Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s husband pens memoir about moving on

Jason, an attorney, started the Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation, which supports child literacy and research in early detection of ovarian cancer. He writes about their love story in a new memoir.

JUNE 17, 2020ByJTA/CINDY SHER
Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jason B. Rosenthal are pictured on a trip to Florida in 2017. (Courtesy of Jason Rosenthal)