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message 1: by Catherine (new)

Catherine Goldberg The Secrets They Kept: The True Story of a Mercy Killing That Shocked a Town and Shamed a Family

This book is insane! This 71 year old Jewish grandma uncovered a crazy story about her family. Her mother and her were never close and she always sensed there was some kind of secret. You won't believe this. Her father and orthodox Jew killed his 16 year old daughter near there home in Wyoming. It's all about mercy killings, mental health, schizophrenia, what it was like to be a Jew in America before WWII. It's a really short story I read it in one sitting but it definitely will blow your mind. The author includes a lot of the documentation from the courts and newspapers so it's a great piece of investigative journalism too.


message 2: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 26, 2015 10:21AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Couldn't find any of my books by Isaac Bashevis Singer, so I added the ones I own. Same goes for his sister's book, Een meisje van niets : Een vrouwenleven in het sjtetl (The Dance of the Demons) by Esther Singer Kreitman.

Nor could I find Matt Cohen, or singer/songwriter and author Leonard Cohen. They certainly deserve to be included in this list, so I've added the books I have. Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev is near the top of the list, but oddly enough the sequel, The Gift of Asher Lev, was nowhere to be found...

I own several other books by Jewish authors, like Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, William Styron, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, Frans Pointl, Mendele Mokher Sefarim, Sholem Aleichem, David Bergelson, Itzik Manger, I.L. Peretz, Anatoli Rybakov, Marga Minco, Adele Wiseman, Mordecai Richler, Joseph Roth, Vicki Baum, Franz Kafka, Meir Shalev, Isaac Babel, Joseph Brodsky, Vasily Grossman, Jacob Israël de Haan, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Der Nister, so I took the liberty of adding them. And I'm sure I forgot many.... :-)


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