Book Recommendations

[Miri Pomerantz]

What (Jewish interest) book are you reading now that you just love? Or have read recently?

[charlotte gordon]

I would love JEWISH readers to try my new book,The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three F... (Little, Brown). The book is a non-fiction re-telling of the Abraham story with an emphasis on the role of the women. I worked hard to give the book an interfaith perspective and have been receiving emails from evangelical Christians lambasting me for not making the book CHRISTIAN enough. This is disheartening, to say the least!

[Fran]

I can understand that you might feel disheartened. But, in my opinion, that is their issue, not yours.

[Marie Cloutier]

I read VALLEY OF STRENGTH, by Shulamit Lapid, about homesteading in pre-state Israel. Loved it! Great historical fiction.

[Fran]

I will read anything by Shulamit Lapid, that I can get my hands on.

[Deborah Rey]

May I add my novel:

RACHEL SARAI'S VINEYARD
publised by Merilang Press UK, September 19th 2009
ISBN 987-0955543098
0955543096

When, during the Second World War, five-year-old Rachel Sarai must take over her father’s work in the Dutch Resistance, she distributes messages, smuggles people to safety during nightly curfew hours, lies, steals, and confronts the Gestapo.
One child, two wars: Rachel must also survive the sick hatred, and mental, and physical abuse of the woman supposedly her mother. She does, thanks to the unadulterated love of Marie, a Jewish violinist in hiding,
‘Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard’ relates the life of a ‘baby courier’ during WWII. It tells of fear and lost morals, child abuse, of the death of the child within, and the cruel annihilation of her roots.