Here is a listing of the books I have read and reviewed in 2009. The listing begins with the first book read and reviewed, on January 2, 2009, and ascends from there, as books are read and reviewed.
Gut leyenung tsu du! Good reading to you!
1. The Sixth Lamentation, by William Brodrick
2. The Girl From Foreign, by Sadia Shepard
3. Poyln, by Alter Kacyzne
4. Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, by Elie Wiesel
5. Resistance: A French Woman’s Journal of the War, by Agnes Humbert
6. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, by Simon Wiesenthal.
7. My Father’s Paradise, by Ariel Sabar
8. A Wild Faith, by Rabbi Mike Comins
9. The Search Committee, by Marc Angel
10. The Book That Was Lost: Thirty Five Stories, by S.Y. Agnon
11. A Fortunate Age, by Joanna Smith Rakoff
12. Peony, by Pearl S. Buck
13. Jerusalem on the Amur, by Henry Felix Srebrnik
14. The Illumination, by Jill Gregory and Karen Tintori
15. The Journey, by H.G. Adler
16. Raising a Child With Soul, Slovie Jungreis Wolff
17. The Rabbi’s Daughter, by Reva Mann
18. Old Men at Midnight, by Chaim Potok
19. Tightrope, by Michael Karpin
20. Rena’s Promise, by Rena Kornreich Gelissen and Heather Dune Macadam
21. Why Faith Matters, by David J. Wolpe
22. Friendly Fire, by A.B. Yehoshua
23. The Clothes on Their Backs, by Linda Grant
24. A Mad Desire to Dance, by Elie Wiesel
25. Good Book, by David Plotz
26. Wandering Stars, by Sholem Aleichem
27. Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska
28. The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel
29. Who By Fire, by Diana Spechler
30. The Shawl, by Cynthia Ozick
31. Pictures at an Exhibition, by Sarah Houghteling
32. A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book, by Aliza Lavie
33. The Way Into Judaism and the Environment, by Jeremy Benstein, Ph.D
34. My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, by Benyamin Cohen
35. The Lazarus Project, by Aleksandar Hemon
36. The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway
37. Rhyming Life & Death, by Amos Oz
38. Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman: Sex and Romance in God’s House, by Gary Morgenstein
39. The Golden Willow, by Harry Bernstein
40. Kahn & Engelmann, by Hans Eichner
41. City of Thieves, by David Benioff
42. A Lucky Child, by Thomas Buergenthal
43. Strange Ways, by Rokhl Faygenberg
44. The Journal of Helene Berr, by Helene Berr
45. Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, by Peter Manseau
46. My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
47. Sunday Jews, by Hortense Calisher
48. The Late Lamented Molly Marx: A Novel, by Sally Koslow
49. The Koren Sacks Siddur, by Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
50. The Seamstress, by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (finished June 27th, review to follow)
51. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, by Edward Kritzler
52. The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels
53. The Town Beyond the Wall, by Elie Wiesel
54. Bearing the Body, by Ehud Havazelet
55. The Black Hole of Auschwitz, by Primo Levi
56. Snow in August, by Pete Hamill
57. Miriam’s Kitchen, by Elizabeth Ehrlich
58. A Happy Marriage, by Rafael Yglesias
59. Saving What Remains, by Livia Bitton-Jackson
60. Caspian Rain, by Gina Nahai
61. The Nazi Officer’s Wife, by Edith H. Beer
62. A Woman of Letters: Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
63. Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger
64. The Possibility of Everything, by Hope Edelman
65. Rashi, by Elie Wiesel
66. Gertruda’s Oath, by Ram Oren
68. You or Someone Like You, by Chandler Burr
69. Rashi’s Daughters: Book III, by Maggie Anton
70. Laish, by Aharon Appelfeld
71. The German Woman, by Paul Griner
72. The Jewish Body, by Melvin Konner
73. The Polski Affair, by Leon H. Gilden
74. The Puzzle King, by Betsy Carter
75. The Jewish Husband, by Lia Levi
76. The Bridge to Forgiveness, by Karyn D. Kedar
77. If You Awaken Love, by Emuna Elon
78. Day After Night, by Anita Diamant
79. To Heal a Fractured World, by Sir Jonathan Sacks
80. The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization, by Josephine Baker, Martin Gilbert
81. Bending Towards the Sun, by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
82. Drawing in the Dust, by Zoe Klein
83. Life is a Test: How to Meet Life’s Challenges Successfully, by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
84. Judaism, Physics and God, by Rabbi David W. Nelson (review to follow)
85. Letters to My Father, by William Styron (review to follow)
86. The Dentist of Auschwitz, by Benjamin Jacobs
87. Hunting Eichmann, by Neal Bascomb
88. The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler’s List, by Mietek Pemper and David Dollenmayer (review to follow)
89. Transgression, by James W. Nichol
90. The Devil’s Workshop, Adolf Burger
100. Jewish Stories From Heaven and Earth, Dov Peretz Elkins
101. Who Will Write Our History, by Samuel D. Kassow (review to follow)
You do read a lot! I am plowing through Atlas Shrugged. Maybe by next year I will finish it.
This is a good place for me to look at books you have reviewed. The Agnon short stories is one I might actually purchase to read.
By: Leora on February 8, 2009
at 6:11 pm
Leora, yes, I do read a lot, lol.
I’m trying to get through Atlas Shrugged, also, and like you, maybe next year….
The Agnon book is a great way to begin reading his work.
By: jewwishes on February 8, 2009
at 6:58 pm
Nice blog.
Thought you’d be interested in my musings — multiracial Jewish and more.
http://muttslikeme.wordpress.com/
By: muttslikeme on March 26, 2009
at 4:21 pm
Thanks, muttslikeme. Your blog is wonderful!
By: jewwishes on March 26, 2009
at 4:48 pm
Batya…yes, impressive.
By: jewwishes on May 15, 2009
at 10:20 am
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By: His Father’s Paradise « Ilana-Davita on May 23, 2009
at 5:52 pm
This is not a comment but a request. I really enjoy reading your blog. Your reviews are so lively and descriptive.
I am looking to find the title and author of a novel that was published sometimes in the 80’s. The story line was about the 23 first Sephardic Jews coming to New Amsterdam from Recife.
I would really appreciate you help.
By: catherine on September 4, 2009
at 9:40 am
Catherine: Thanks for visiting. Here is the book you are looking for: The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World, by Norman H. Finkelstein
By: jewwishes on September 4, 2009
at 9:52 am
Thank you for your quick reply. This is not the book I am looking for. The one I remember was a novel. I pick it up at my local library but did not have time to read it. There was a small boat on the cover.
By: catherine on October 22, 2009
at 3:40 pm