B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / novella / second chance at loveNo Comments
Roslyn Stein is convinced that her boyfriend Ben Jaffe will never marry. Ben’s parents’ contentious divorce left him with emotional scars. But Ben doesn’t want to lose Roslyn. So he asks her to give him the eight nights of Hanukkah, to prove he really does love her and deserves another ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsdoctor hero / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / novella / nurse / War / Military / World War II3 Comments
1944 Ardennes, WWII Lt. Ruth Mencher has always secretly admired Capt. Joseph Klein, but it takes the lighting of a Hanukkah candle to uncover the spark of mutual attraction. Each night awakens a new facet of their relationship, but as the Battle of the Bulge begins, the approaching Nazi forces ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsfriends-to-lovers / holiday novella / Jewish-faith / novella / NYC / publishing business11 Comments
Relocated to New York City from the Midwest, Becky Cohen follows her dream by snagging a choice entry level job at Homes and Ralph Publishing. Hanukkah is not a recognized holiday there, so Becky must remain in New York. Squished into a tiny two-bedroom apartment with three young women, Becky ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / immigrants / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York City / older heroine and hero / turn of the 20th century4 Comments
In her warmly comical and deliciously entertaining debut novel, master storyteller Rochelle Distelheim sweeps us back to 1913 and the world of struggling Jewish immigrants in New York City’s Lower East Side. Sadie Schuster—fortyish, plumpish, a suffragette, and recently widowed—spends more time now talking to her late husband, Fivel, than ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / Historical / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Poland / war / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separated at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive—and to reunite It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / Biography / epistolary novel / Historical / illness / Jewish-faith / Sweden / World War II5 Comments
In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — his lungs are filled ... more >
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