Striking Back (2005), by Aaron J. Klein, begins with a detailed account of the horrific, tragic, and shocking massacre of the Israeli athletes, partaking in the 1972 Munich Olympics. The book then moves on to document the Israeli response to the massacre, including Mossad activity,...
The Vale of Tears is the Holocaust memoir of R’ Pinchas Hirschprung. Unlike almost all other Holocaust memoirs, The Vale of Tears, was written in 1944, while the war still raged in Europe, and R’ Hirschprung did not yet know the fate of his family...
Rebbe, by Joseph Telushkin, is the fascinating, detailed, inspiring, enlightening, larger-than-life story of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson zt’l and the Chabad movement he loved and led. Admittedly, I did not know very much about Chabad until I read this book, and I was...
The Sun Does Shine, by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, is the story of Anthony Ray Hinton, a poor black man living in racially-charged Alabama. In 1985, Hinton was wrongly arrested, accused and convicted for a crime which he did not commit. He...
Clara’s War: One Girls’ Story of Survival, by Clara Kramer, is the riveting, heart-wrenching, triumphant, simply indescribable story of one young girl and her family during the hellish Holocaust years. A Volksdeutsch (ethnically German family) living in Poland - Mr. Beck, his wife Julia and their...
The Jews of the Titanic, by Eli Moskowitz, is a newly released (2018) book on a terrible and tragic disaster that has captivated minds for over one hundred years. Thoroughly researched and documented, engaging and page-turning, as well as easy to read, this book sheds...
This masterful, in depth, riveting book, Rav Belsky, by R’ Shimon Finkelman (Artscroll), gives us but glimpse into an adam gadol, who was larger than life in all that he did. While a life such as Rav Belsky’s cannot be contained within the pages of...
Helga’s Diary, by Helga Weiss, is the diary of one teenage Jewish girl who was interred in the Terezin ghetto along with her mother and father during the Holocaust. Helga’s diary documents the experiences of life in Terezin, as well as her subsequent deportation from...
Forever My Jerusalem, by Puah Shteiner (Feldheim, 1987), is the dramatic, riveting, powerful, tragic, timeless-yet-modern story of the siege of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948, the subsequent fall of the Jewish Quarter to the Jordanian army, and the terrifying...
The Bielski Brothers, by Peter Duffy, is one of the most riveting, almost unbelievable, and simply incredible books, which documents what is, perhaps, a little-known story of heroism and defiance during the terrible Holocaust years. Deep in the forests of Russia, three Bielski brothers, whose...