'The blind trust that I had had in Israel’s leaders was gone, while my determination to build up the moshav and raise my family there was strengthened.'
New year, new books! Take your pick from a whimsical graphic novel exploring dreams to a novella about a 17th century Jewess living in the Venice Ghetto.
Author Linda Kass captures pageant energy and postwar disorientation in 'Bessie,' an impressively researched novel about Bess Myerson, the woman hailed by Jews as their modern Queen Esther.