The Mathematician's Shiva

8 best books like The Mathematician's Shiva (Stuart Rojstaczer): 1066: The Year of the Conquest, Storyteller, If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, City of Grit and Gold, Famous Writers I Have Known, Kaddish.com, Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What, Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God

1066: The Year of the Conquest

Author

David Howarth

Alternate cover for ISBN 10: 0140058508 / ISBN 13: 9780140058505

Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early...

Storyteller

Author

Leslie Marmon Silko

"She was an old woman now, and her life had become memories." She's Ayah, an Indian woman, and her story encapsulates the persecution and suffering of the Native Americans in the hands of the white colonizers.

I had always suspected that great literature often springs out of suffering, whether...

If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir

Author	Ilana Kurshan
ISBN	0646152602

At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...

City of Grit and Gold

Author	Maud Macrory Powell
ISBN	0996755853

The streets of Chicago in 1886 are full of turmoil. Striking workers clash with police…illness and injury lurk around every corner…and twelve-year-old Addie must find her way through it all. Torn between her gruff Papa—who owns a hat shop and thinks the workers should be content with their American...

Famous Writers I Have Known

Author	James Magnuson
ISBN	0393350819

In this brilliant mix of literary satire and crime caper, Frankie Abandonato, a small-time con man on the run, finds refuge by posing as V. S. Mohle—a famously reclusive writer—and teaching in a prestigious writing program somewhere in Texas. Streetwise and semiliterate, Frankie finds that...

Kaddish.com

Author	Nathan Englander
ISBN	1524732753

The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father

Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies,...

Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What

Author	Maggie Anton
ISBN	0976305062

Amusing. Seductive. Stimulating. We're talking about the Talmud? That's right. Take fifty actual Talmudic discussions, mix in pithy sayings (appropriate and inappropriate) by luminaries from Mae West and Amy Schumer to George Washington and Gandhi, add a few cartoons, and voila delighted and...

Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God

Author	Chet Raymo
ISBN	1561012351

"What is the relevance of traditional religion in the world described by contemporary science? Is scientific knowledge a satisfactory ground for the religious experience? Can the language of traditional religion constitute an appropriately modern language of praise?" --from Honey from Stone...