Jewish literature

Historical Novel Spills the Secrets and Grace of Matchmaking

A divorcee and her two daughters are grieving for Sara, their beloved mother and grandmother who died recently after a very long life as a matchmaker. Sara’s career began at an early age, as a ten-year old girl on a boat with her family, emigrating from Eastern Europe to America.…

Claudia KeenanSeptember 20, 2022

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Exploring Historical Shadows: A Conversation with Eric Weintraub on “South of Sepharad”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

Blaine DesantisJanuary 10, 2024

Fiction

Revisiting Post-War America in “One of Them”

Kitty Zeldis is a prolific author and gifted storyteller who ably captures the zeitgeist of the time period immediately following WWII in her well-crafted novel One of Them which focuses on two college girls struggling with identity and discrimination. It’s an unusual coming of age story involving anti-Semitism in Ivy…

Linda HitchcockDecember 11, 2025

Nonfiction

Review: Lost World Remembered in House of Twenty Thousand Books

In The House of Twenty Thousand Books (New York Review Books, September 1, 2015) this is the journey taken by Sasha Abramsky, whose family was tasked with the job of cleaning out a houseful of books upon his grandfather’s death. His grandfather was no ordinary book collector. The co-owner…

Michael RuscoeAugust 19, 2015

Historical Novel Spills the Secrets and Grace of Matchmaking

Books & Looks Podcast: Exploring Historical Shadows: A Conversation with Eric Weintraub on “South of Sepharad”

Review: Lost World Remembered in House of Twenty Thousand Books

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