Memoir

Eli Sharabi’s ‘Hostage’ memoir named Jewish book of the year

Sharabi’s memoir, which details his abduction from Kibbutz Be’eri and the more than year he spent in captivity, became a bestseller in Israel and was later released in English in the United States. 

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Eli Sharabi's memoir recounts his 491 days as a Hamas hostage in Gaza.
Released hostage Eli Sharabi signs his book “Hostage," during an event in Modi'in, July 2, 2025

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
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

Looking back on a happy childhood in Netanya

Ice deliveries, traveling barbers and goats strolling the streets are fondly remembered by a Netanya resident

OCTOBER 14, 2020BySARAH HERSHENSON
ON PURIM, instead of hauling heavy supplies, Netanya’s wagon drivers donned costumes and decorated horses and wagons. Pictured: Eliahu Parobic (left), who provided fun-filled rides for families.

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)