Jewish History

Where Silence Carries History: A Conversation with “Red Anemones” Author Paula Dáil

Paula Dáil’s Red Anemones is a meditation on the stories families carry in silence — the inherited memories, buried histories and quiet choices that shape identity across generations. Inspired by the author’s own discovery of a previously unknown Jewish ancestor, the novel weaves personal reckoning with larger questions of immigration,…

BookTribJanuary 28, 2026

Nonfiction

The True Story of Nazi Germany’s Secret Resistance and Its Deadly Infiltration

Jonathan Freedman has written a thought-provoking, heart-breaking work of non-fiction in The Traitor’s Circle subtitled The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them. Among his previous works is the award-winning true story The Escape Artist: The Man who Broke out of…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 4, 2026

Nonfiction Recommended

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

A grandmother’s album of photographs and postcards reveals the Belle Époque in Berlin — a time of unrivaled promise, peace, and prosperity — through the eyes of a young Prussian Jewish woman, as told by her grandson Stephan R. Frenkel in Clara’s Secret (LAEV). In 2016, Frenkel discovered an album…

Peggy KurkowskiSeptember 7, 2023

Nonfiction

A rabbi reveals the colorful history of the Jews of Asia

In his latest book, Pepper, Silk and Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East (Gefen Publishing House, 2014), Rabbi Marvin Tokayer regales the reader with stories of Jews who traversed the Far East—from Burma, China and Japan to all points in between—and who made significant contributions in ancient…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2014

Fiction

“The Flight Portfolio” Inspired by Man Who Helped Jewish Artists Escape Occupied France

“Masterfully crafted and impossible to put down ... a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.” —Entertainment Weekly — AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK BEGINNING JULY 1 — The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer (Knopf), an incredible, important work of fiction with a touch of humor, is…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 26, 2020

Fiction

‘The Last Watchman of Old Cairo’ A Spellbinding New Novel Transports Readers to Egypt

The latest novel from Michael David Lukas, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo (Spiegel & Grau) is a spellbinding novel that takes place in Cairo, Egypt and focuses on the Ezra Scroll--- a legendary, perfect copy of the Torah written by the Prophet Ezra himself. Written across three different time periods, from…

BookTribApril 6, 2018

Fiction

Multiple Themes for Rabbi’s Scribe In “The Weight Of Ink”

The Weight Of Ink (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Rachel Kadish tells the story of Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who becomes a scribe for a blind rabbi in London in the 1600s right before the plague. At the same time we learn about Helen Watt, a close-to-retiring British historian working…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 27, 2018

Where Silence Carries History: A Conversation with “Red Anemones” Author Paula Dáil

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

A rabbi reveals the colorful history of the Jews of Asia

“The Flight Portfolio” Inspired by Man Who Helped Jewish Artists Escape Occupied France

‘The Last Watchman of Old Cairo’ A Spellbinding New Novel Transports Readers to Egypt

Multiple Themes for Rabbi’s Scribe In “The Weight Of Ink”

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