Aharon Appelfields tale of wartime erotica etched in tragedy “Blooms of Darkness” reviewed by Helen Schary Motro

Jack Cohen, today a resident of Netanya and a VIP of AACI, describes in his autobiographical novel, Amanuensis, growing up in the east end of London. But Adele Rubin thinks it would have been interesting to learn more of how Jack succeeded in spite of the difficulties and his career as an adult.

Disturbing, yet fascinating novel based in Jerusalem Carl Hoffman reviews “Wherever you Go” by Joan Leegant

Esra’s new Modiin bookshop is a smash hit

Rolly King Kohansky interviews Fradle Pomerantz in the wake of the recent publication of her new book, Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education In North America : 1910-1960.

The ESRA second-hand bookshop finds a treasure among some donated books, the1910 translation of a 2,400 year-old manuscript: “The Art of Warfare,” by Sun Tzu . Jane Krivine tells us about her quest for its literary value.

Lydia Aisenberg reviews Yuval Danieli's book and describes it as a labor of love. She says that with so many these days lamenting the demise of kibbutzim, it is heartening to find a book that puts the emphasis on the first hundred years of the kibbutz movement.

Pnina Moed Kass muses about the bookmark which she says is a memory keeper: it marks the pages we read, it heralds the pages we have yet to read. The recycled envelopes, postcards, timetables we use as bookmarks are reminders of places and events that obviously we don’t want to forget. Whatever we hold between our fingers and insert between the pages honors the act of slipping into another world, the pleasurable act we call reading.