BT Recommended Reading
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Recommended Read for Upcoming Event
Join us for a conversation between Rabbi Jarrod Grover and and the author, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove. The event will discuss discusRabbi Cosgrove's upcoming book, on the unity of the Jewish . community after October 7th, and connects the past to the . future with riveting questions on Jewish identity. Please sign . up on the event page here. If you'd like to purchase a copy of . the book, For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today click . the link below.
Cosgrove, Elliot. For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish . Today. Harvest, 24 Sept. 2024.
Holocaust and WWII
Ellin Bessner. Double Threat. University of Toronto Press, 24 Jan. 2019.
Freedland, Jonathan. The Escape Artist. HarperCollins, 18 Oct. 2022.
Berest, Anne. The Postcard. Europa Editions, 7 May 2024.
Sullivan, Rosemary. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation. New York, Ny, Harper, 2022.
Historical Non-Fiction
Camlot, Heather. The Prisoner and the Writer. Groundwood Books Ltd, 4 Oct. 2022.
Friedman, Matti. Who by Fire. 3 Sept. 2024.
Kaufman, Jonathan. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China. New York, New York, Viking, An Imprint Of Penguin Random House Llc, 2020.
Kreindler, Simon. The Sephardi Jews of Barbados. 2022.
Michael Scott Doran. Ike’s Gamble America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East. New York London; Toronto Sydney New Delhi Free Press October, 2017.
Historical Fiction
Weizman, Janice. Wayward Moon. Yotzeret Publishing, 2024.
Weizman, Janice. Our Little Histories. 22 Aug. 2024.
Canadian-Jewish Perspectives and Stories
Barwin, Gary. Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted. Random House Canada, 9 Mar. 2021.
Eisenstadt, David. Musicians under the Radar, Vol 3: 42 Notable Canadian Jewish Performers. 21 June 2024.
Eisenstadt, David. Musicians under the Radar: 36 Notable Canaidan Jewish Preformers. 2023.
Eisenstadt, David, and Alan L Simons. Under the Radar: 30 Notable Canadian Jewish Musicians. 2021.
Graham, Genevieve. Letters across the Sea. Simon and Schuster, 27 Apr. 2021.
Jewish Perspectives and Stories
Aleeza Ben Shalom. Get Real Get Married. Aleeza Ben Shalom, 14 May 2013.
Benedetta Jasmine Guetta. Cooking Alla Giudia. Artisan, 5 Apr. 2022.
Bergstein, Rachelle. The Genius of Judy. Simon and Schuster, 16 July 2024.
Englander, Nathan. Kaddish.com. Vintage, 11 Feb. 2020.
Hazony, David. Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People. Simon and Schuster, 24 Oct. 2023.
Greenberg, Irving. . The Jewish Publication Society, 2024.
Child and Young Adult
Arato, Rona. Nothing Could Stop Her. Kar-Ben Publishing, 1 May 2023.
Arato, Rona. The Ship to Nowhere. Second Story Press, 4 Oct. 2016.
Baryshnik, Janice. Jewish Girls Who Dreamed Big and Changed the World. Tenllwell Talent, 30 Apr. 2019.
Kacer, Katherine R, and Second Story Press. To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis. Toronto, Second Story Press, 2012.
Kacer, Kathy. The Sound of Freedom. Toronto ; Berkeley, Annick Press, 2018.
Kacer, Kathy. Under the Iron Bridge. Second Story Press, 12 Oct. 2021.
Kaner, Etta. Beware the Burmese Pythons: And Other Invasive Animal Species. Kids Can Press Ltd, 4 Oct. 2022.
Kaner, Etta. Do NOT Eat like a Tiger Shark! Wacky Ways Animals Slurp, Chomp, and Gulp. Orca Book Publishers, 13 Aug. 2024.
Fiction
Bailey, Samantha M. Watch out for Her. Simon and Schuster, 26 Apr. 2022.
Fagan, Cary. Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart. Freehand Books, 2021.