Books & Literature
Sam climbs her way to a better life
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER For understandable reasons Sam is not a happy girl, so Allegra Goodman’s very engaging Sam is...
Not Great Britain’s finest hour
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Three weeks short of 17, orphaned Peter Fleischmann escaped Nazi Germany with the famed Kindertransport only...
Stella Levi recalls life on Rhodes
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In nearly a century, Stella Levi has lived four different lives: First a child in the...
Strange journey of a prophet
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Most Jews are born that way, others have to work at it — but few as...
Raizl can’t stop looking
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Raizl’s life is being ruined by strangers pretending to enjoy theirs. They’re inside her computer, which...
A writer wrestles with Jewish questions, life issues
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The difficult experience of divorce doesn’t necessarily end with the court decree. It may be only...
Alice Stern travels through time
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER What if you just turned 40, fell asleep and woke up in your childhood bed, once...
Poems wanted
The Jewish World will publish another poetry page in the July 2022 issue. We again invite local Jewish poets to...
Searching for a bridge to the past
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jason Sommer had an uneasy childhood with a smart, gregarious father whose Shoah experience hovered just...
‘Sadie on a Plate’ spans romance, cooking
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Sadie Rosen will never cook lunch in Seattle again. Fired from the Green Onion, where she...
