Category Archives: Books

Being a librarian in a small synagogue library has its perks. One of them is that I can put no my hand first on the new books the library gets. We get boos in two ways: I order them or … Continue reading →

Before reading “Letters from the Earth“  I didn’t know much about Mark Twain. I read and enjoyed his Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn stories in grade school and that was it. This book, that I read for my book club, is … Continue reading →

The Accident by Elie Wiesel – Librarything, my review A cts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel – Librarything, my review Angst by Gergely Nagy – … Continue reading →

I feel angst, just by thinking of writing a review of Gergely Nagy‘s Angst – A városi harcos kézikönyve (“Angst – The Handbook Of The Urban Guerilla”). It is a such a multi-layered book, packed with so many ideas worthy to analyze … Continue reading →

You may or may not have noticed that in the title of my book reviews besides the author’s last name and the book’s title I put the year of publication in parenthesis. This time you see two numbers and to … Continue reading →

If you thought just because “Berchick” means little bear in Yiddish a book by this title would be about a cub you’d be mistaken. It is about a newborn colt, who had thick fur when he was found next to … Continue reading →

Four kids from Toronto help an Israeli agent and the local police to capture to capture criminals, members of an international smuggling ring. This is the short summary of Galila Ben-Uri‘s The Missing Crown. A slightly more verbose recap would include that … Continue reading →

It’s so much fun to read a book to kids that moves their imagination. Margot Zemach‘s It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale was ideal in this regard. It starts off with a  problem: there are too many … Continue reading →

Pop culture saturates the lives of most people living in contemporary society. Unless you are a hermit (and was brought up in isolation) you will be familiar with at least the major figures of the art and entertainment scene of … Continue reading →

Gila Almagor, the author of Under the Domim Tree, placed bits of her personal life into several characters in her first book, but most of them for the narrator, who tells the story in first person. Here are some of the basic … Continue reading →