Well-written frum memoirs? Or other frum nonfiction?

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shaqued_almond

Mon, Jan 24 2022, 9:40 pm

Another vote for all for the boss. Also check out out of the depths, the memoir of Rabbi Lau.

amother

Forsythia

Mon, Jan 24 2022, 9:44 pm

shaqued_almond wrote:

Also check out out of the depths, the memoir of Rabbi Lau.

Or the one written by his brother, Naphtali Lau-Lavie, Baalam's Prophecy. I read that before Out of the Depths was published and found it fascinating. It's been recently republished.

curlyhead

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 3:34 am

I am in the middle of the Rubushkin book. Its very interesting.

Oldest

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 9:47 am

Incredible (by Nachman Seltzer about Rabbi Yossi Wallace of Arachim)
As Long as I Live
the biography on Rabbi Trenk (Don't remember what its called)

DallasIma

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 10:18 am

Nothing but the Truth by Leah Friedman. Very, very powerful.

mommy9

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 10:24 am

The book about Rabbi Trenk is Just love them.
Also any of Devora Gliksman's books.
Sori's Story is a memoir.
Nouri
Nor the moon by night
Sun and a shield
Rebbitzen Kaplan
Marcus Lehman 's books

mommy9

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 10:25 am

Behind the walls. I don't remember who wrote it. About a child hidden in a convent during the holocaust.

amother

Pewter

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 10:42 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

I'd love some ideas of well-written memoirs, specifically those that would appeal to older teenagers (both boys and girls). Or any other interesting frum nonfiction.

For kids who are somewhat intellectual. So written on at least a high-school level, if not higher. Not like most frum books these days, which are geared to middle schoolers...

Nor the Moon by Night by Devorah Gliksman. I can't recommend this book highly enough! The writing is so incredible that you feel like you are literally there. This book made a huge impact on me. It is one of the best-written books I have ever read, Jewish or secular.

amother

Aquamarine

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 11:23 am

https://store.kehotonline.com/.....BA.SB
Lubavitcher Rebbes memoires?

amother

Aquamarine

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 11:25 am

Also
https://www.chabad.org/library.....n.htm
It's the previous lubavitcher rebbe''s diary of when he was in communist prison.

amother

Aquamarine

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 11:30 am

https://www.chabad.org/library.....d.htm
My family loved "samarkand" by rabbi zaltzman. I think I remember a chapter detailing how mikvah worked in communist times, I don't know how you feel about reading that with teens. Overall entertaining in addition to inspiring.
The last 2 are chabad.org links. I read the actual books, the links may be missing chapters, I don't know.

mommy9

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 12:05 pm

Go my son
To remain a jew
Blue star over red square
Operation Torah rescue
Underground
Living legend
A tap on the shoulder
My shtetl Baltimore
In the shadow of the Kremlin
A (or The)will to survive- more of a coffee table book but a fascinating book by a reporter in Israel during the 1948 war.
Akiva by Marcus lehman

amother

Teal

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 12:13 pm

Not really for high schoolers

Perfidy
By Ben Hecht

The House on Garibaldi Street
by Isser Harel

amother

Teal

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 12:15 pm

(A daughter of 2 mother’s is written as fiction. The author says she was told the story by the main character who didn’t want the book written until after her death. But supposedly the story line itself is true. It is fascinating and heartbreaking)

PinkFridge

Tue, Jan 25 2022, 12:21 pm

My Footsteps Echo by Rabbi Yaakov Sapir, who traveled far and wide in the 19th century fundraising.

jewishmommy1

Wed, Jan 26 2022, 9:52 am

Voices in the Silence by S.Z. Sonnenfeld- it's Rebbitzen Basya Barg (Mayzlik)'s story of growing up completely frum in Communist Russia. An unbelievable story.