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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 Teachers: The Ones I Can’t Forget Martin Fletcher Nonfiction Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In Michael Posner Nonfiction The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America Christopher C. Gorham Nonfiction Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Micheline Maynard Nonfiction The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Simon Parker Nonfiction Sidney Reilly: Master Spy Benny Morris Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga Nonfiction Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation Ruth Wisse Nonfiction Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement Julian E. Zelizer Nonfiction The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Wendy Lower Nonfiction Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home Alexander Wolff Nonfiction Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years Michael Posner Nonfiction Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning Géraldine Schwarz, Laura Marris (trans.) Nonfiction The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle David Edmonds Nonfiction Recipes From Auschwitz: The Survival Stories of Two Hungarian Jews Alex Sternberg Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Nonfiction The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America Christopher C. Gorham
Nonfiction Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Micheline Maynard
Nonfiction The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Simon Parker
Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga
Nonfiction Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning Géraldine Schwarz, Laura Marris (trans.)
Nonfiction The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle David Edmonds