of Vanished Husbands (Plume)

A woman abandoned by her hus-
band in a conservative London Jewish
community in the 1960s tries to carve
out a new identity in the art world.

Sarah Paretsky: Critical Mass
(Putnam)

Private investigator V.I. Warshawski
returns, this time to help a close
friend, a Viennese-born doc-
tor who escaped to London on a
Kindertransport in 1939.

Lore Segal: Half the Kingdom
(Melville House)

Segal, 85, who joined other Jewish
children on the first wave of the
Kindertransport, has written a darkly
comic novel about a fictional investiga-
tion into a dementia epidemic among
"over-62s" that breaks out in a local
Manhattan hospital (at least half the
characters are Jewish).

Zeruya Shalev: The Remains of
Love (Bloomsbury)
A Jerusalem woman near the end of

her life is flooded with memories from
her past — her childhood on a kib-
butz and her life raising her own two
children.

David Leavitt: The Two Hotel
Francforts (Bloomsbury USA)

Set in 1940 Portugal and crackling
with intrigue and illicit romance, this
novel follows two couples who wait for
passage to the United States; feeling
particularly vulnerable is the fragile
Julia Winters, all too aware of her vul-
nerability as a Jew perilously close to
Hitler's armies.

Amos Oz: Between Friends
(Harcourt Houghton Mifflin)

A collection of eight interconnected
stories set on a kibbutz, by Israel's
award-winning author.

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Rabbi Neil Gillman: Believing
and Its Tensions: A Personal
Conversation about God, Torah,
Suffering and Death in Jewish
Thought (Jewish Lights)

A brief and clear summary of a
life's wrestling match with challenging
questions.

Ben Urwand: The
Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact
with Hitler (Belknap Press)

Drawing upon previously secret
documents, the author reveals the
complex web of active connections
between the Hollywood studios, most-
ly headed by Jews, and the German
government in the 1930s.

Rabbi Marc Schneir and Iman
Shamsi Ali: Sons of Abraham:
A Candid Conversation about
the Issues That Divide and Unite
Muslims and Jews (Beacon Press)

Both authors were raised in ortho-
doxy and, trying to build bridges
between their two faiths and peoples,
share the story of their friendship and
shared hopes.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: The
Devil That Never Dies: The Rise
and Threat of Global Antisemitism
(Little, Brown)

Using the devil as a metaphor for
global anti-Semitism, the author
explores the upsurge in anti-Semitic
expression over the last decades,
showing how digital technologies are
encouraging the rise.

Yossi Klein Halevi: The
Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli
Paratroopers Who Reunited
Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
(Harper)

The author follows the lives of seven
members of Brigade 55, several of
whom are photographed in the iconic
photograph of 1967 when they cap-
tured the Western Wall; as they have
gone in different directions, so the
nation has become deeply split.

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An original look at each of the
weekly Torah readings, written by
young artists, writers, actors, musi-
cians and other creative types, who
bring their own interests, talents and
insight to the biblical story.

Alisa Solomon: Wonder of
Wonders: A Cultural History of
Fiddler on the Roof (Metropolitan
Books)

A description of how Sholem
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Phyllis Chesler: An American
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The feminist leader, scholar, psycho-
therapist and best-selling author looks
back on a most dramatic chapter of
her life.

Wendy Lower: Hitler's Furies:
German Women in the Nazi
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The role of women in the Nazi
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