If all you know of Jewish history is the Bible or your World War II classes in school, this book attempts to fill in some of the gaps.
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Zelda Fitzgerald (24 July, 1900 – 10 March, 1948) was an American author, painter and socialite. Together with her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, they became the symbol for the Roaring 20s.
Lux by Elizabeth Cook – a retelling of Books 1 & 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, the story of King David, how it applied to King Henry VIII, and poet Thomas Wyatt
T.F. Powys ((20 December, 1875 – 27 November, 1953) was a British writer and novelist. His novel, Mr. Weston’s Good Wine is probably his most famous story.
A non-fiction meditation by the author about books he believes are influential and popular but are actually full of bad ideas when it comes to Christianity.
Amazing Jewish Heroes Down Through The Ages by David Richard Goldberg – short biographies of famous Jews meant as an introduction to these ground-breakers
A nonfiction book of extremely short biographies of those people the author deemed as changing the world they lived in. Mr. Montefiore is a prize winning author
This is a refreshing and unique book, which provides a deeper understanding into a complicated, and sometimes contradictory, story.
This is a well rounded book, certainly not the end all financial bible, but certainly a very helpful guide and full of good ideas and approaches
I really enjoyed that the author didn’t just look at historical contexts, but also at political and social contexts at the time the texts were written.