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Gila Wertheimer Gila Wertheimer is Associate Editor of the Chicago Jewish Star. She is an award-winning journalist who has been reviewing books for 35 years. Reviews Nonfiction Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force Craig Weiss Jeffrey Weiss Nonfiction The World of Leonard Cohen David R. Shumway Nonfiction The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force Samuel M. Katz Nonfiction The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising Elizabeth R. Hyman Nonfiction The Sword of Freedom: Israel, Mossad, and the Secret War Yossi Cohen Nonfiction The Rescue: October 7 through the Eyes of Israel’s Para-Rescue Commandos Guy M. Nonfiction Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy Jonathan Marc Gribetz Nonfiction Young Zionist Voices: A New Generation Speaks Out David Hazony Nonfiction Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz Nonfiction Israel Alone Bernard-Henri Lévy Nonfiction The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud Gila Fine Nonfiction (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo Nonfiction My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Martha Hodes Cookbook The Eucalyptus Cookbook Moshe Basson Nonfiction My Kaddish: A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto Thérèse (Terri) Masson Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Nonfiction Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force Craig Weiss Jeffrey Weiss
Nonfiction The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force Samuel M. Katz
Nonfiction The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising Elizabeth R. Hyman
Nonfiction Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict Yardena Schwartz
Nonfiction (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo