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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 Fiction The First Mrs. Rothschild Sara Aharoni, Yardenne Greenspan (trans.) Nonfiction The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between Michael Dobbs Nonfiction How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives Françoise S. Ouzan Nonfiction The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah Adam Valen Levinson Nonfiction Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth Jodi Magness Nonfiction The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and The American Dream Tom Weidlinger Nonfiction The Impostor: A True Story Javier Cercas Fiction Motherhood: A Novel Sheila Heti Nonfiction Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem Sarah Tuttle-Singer Visual Arts Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles Cipe Pineles; Rich, MacNaughton, Millman & Popova, eds. Nonfiction No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel Shimon Peres Fiction La Superba Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer; Michele Hutchison, trans. Cookbook Our Table: Time-Tested Recipes, Memorable Meals Renee Muller Nonfiction The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu Neill Lochery Nonfiction The Bridge Builder: The Life and Continuing Legacy of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein Zev Chafets Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3 Next page ››
Nonfiction The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and The American Dream Tom Weidlinger
Nonfiction Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Visual Arts Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles Cipe Pineles; Rich, MacNaughton, Millman & Popova, eds.
Nonfiction No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel Shimon Peres
Nonfiction The Bridge Builder: The Life and Continuing Legacy of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein Zev Chafets
