https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek Post your Jewish book recommendations below! Jewish Book Week (26 Feb - 06 March 2022) is an annual international literary festival, held in London. Every year, the festival brings together writers and speakers – from the most eminent to the first-time published – from the worlds of history, journalism, philosophy, science, art, music, poetry and fiction in a celebration of ideas. The festival features Jewish themes and writers, as well as discussions on the most important issues of the day, and is open to everyone. en-us 2022-01-07 12:02:38 UTC 2023-02-16 17:27:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/170161433/33ed178e7c262e2c8c2efc5401b011f3/logo.png WHS_Library https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1980413467 Science and religion go head to head in David Baddiel's debut play: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers.
When physics student Edie seems to prove, scientifically, the existence of God, it has far reaching effects. Not least for her lecturer, Henry Brook, his marriage to celebrity atheist author Virginia ' and his entire universe.
God's Dice is an electric tragicomedy about the power of belief and our quest for truth in a fractured world. ]]> 2022-01-07 12:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1980413467 WHS_Library https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1980417703 Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War. Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. 
She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe -- starting with her own small life.]]> 2022-01-07 12:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1980417703 https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983614023 A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The sort of person the concentration camp prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose.
This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Recommended by: WHS Religious Studies.]]> 2022-01-10 11:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983614023 https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983616537 Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith.
Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor’s perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. 
A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.

Recommended by: WHS Religious Studies.]]> 2022-01-10 11:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983616537 https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983621153 This book is a concise guide to the history, beliefs and practices of this major world faith. Covering all the key aspects of Judaism, including the impact of the Holocaust and the significance of Israel on Jewish self-understanding, gain real insight into what it means to be Jewish today.

Recommended by: WHS Religious Studies.]]> 2022-01-10 11:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983621153 WHS_Library https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983623771 One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. 
From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we--and don't we--remember the Holocaust today? 
This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.]]> 2022-01-10 11:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1983623771 https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1990910664 This book is a graphic novel about a young Jewish girl who lived in France during WW2. It follows her story as she hides from the Nazis and her quest to find her family.
An unforgettable, unputdownable story about strength, courage and the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives, from the globally bestselling author of Wonder.]]> 2022-01-13 17:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1990910664 https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1990976373 This story is about an unexpected friendship between two boys who are unaware of what’s going on in the world around them. Beautiful but sad. ]]> 2022-01-13 18:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/1990976373 WHS_Library https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/2008537968 Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey.
Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier's pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines.

A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction.
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.]]> 2022-01-24 11:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/WHS_Library/JewishBookWeek/wish/2008537968