Amos Oz – Judas
In de winter van 1959 gaat student Sjmoeël Asj door een persoonlijke crisis. Zijn ouders weigeren zijn universitaire studie nog langer te financieren en zijn vriendin verlaat hem plotseling voor… Read more »
Tag: Jews
Jason Hensley – Part of the Family: Christadelphians, the Kindertransport, and Rescue from the Holocaust
While Adolf Hitler’s nazi regime was gaining power, antisemitism was blooming, a rescue effort was made in 1938 and 1939, to help Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied territories in Europe… Read more »
Paulette Mahurin – The Seven Year Dress
In her new novel, The Seven Year Dress, Paulette Mahurin, digs in World War II, a theme many authors already wrote about, both fiction as well as non-fiction. For a… Read more »
E.P. Sanders – Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE – 66 CE
In Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE – 66 CE (2016, 922 pages), E. P. Sanders dares to challenge prevailing views on Second Temple Period Judaism, and readers to get familiar… Read more »
Emily Barton – The Book of Esther
Inspired by the biblical character of Esther who saved the Jews from Haman‘s plot to destroy all of them, The Book of Esther, has a great story of a 20th… Read more »