books

The winner will receive a prize of NIS 180,000, and the winning book will be translated into Arabic as well as another foreign language.

Talya Tomer-Schlesinger found herself alone with three children while her husband was in reserves,  so she wrote a book to help children and families talk about their fears.

Yaroslav Trofimov provides a compelling, up-close-and-personal account of Ukrainians’ fight for their independence in Europe’s most consequential shooting war since 1945.

The flawed and the complex; the historic and the particular. These are the qualities that I look for in a good book. Below are some of the Jewish books I read and enjoyed in 2023.

Ethics of Our Fighters has as its background the Jewish reaction to being confronted with the moral challenges of warfare.

The Elephant in My Room is the story of seven-year-old Benny, whose father is called up for military service on October 7.

These are specifically Jewish stories, and unlikely to be appreciated or understood without a background in what is commonly called Yiddishkeit.