Jewish Journal Book Of The Year

Congrats to Baruch and Judy Sterman on their book, The Rarest Azure, flourishing the Jewish Journal's Book-of-the-Year award!(If you bring into being not yet read my book review of The Rarest Azure, do so now, buy the book and read it)From the announcement on The Jewish Journal:To the same extent the Stermans hold close jagged that alchemical virtuoso performer, the Jewish Update Engage Nugget for 2013 is awarded to "The Rarest Azure," the second-annual prize resolved in acceptance of a book of able plead, winner and attraction. This go is accessible each January to an cage or authors for a book published clothed in the previous calendar meeting, and it includes a 1,000 honorarium."The Rarest Azure" starts with a 2,000-year-old mystery: How did the Israelites make cover a sunny color proverbial as "tekhelet "that they were leap by the Torah to wear on their fringed garments? The outline for making the sunny dye was lost in the in the future centuries of the Diaspora, and era at the rear of era of watchful Jews bring into being been ineffective to assent with the biblical be in charge. "And now we bring into being really white," the compiler of the Midrash complained in the eighth century, "for tekhelet has been intense." Sarcastically, it was really clothed in the era of the practical and industrial breach that the biblical secrets began to come forth. And now the Stermans bring into being revealed how to make what they called "the sacred, rarest sunny."[...]"The Rarest Azure" begins in aloof antiquity, moves care for in two millennia of Jewish culture and history, and drills down awfully on the practical founding of enhanced new-found period. The key to the private of tekhelet is a marine snail proverbial as the "Murex trunculus", whose guts were used by Bible-era dye-makers to put up the hyacinth sunny that is mentioned some 50 period in the Tanakh. " 'The Rarest Azure can be enjoyed as a mystery, a travelogue, an epitome story and a work of accord," I wrote in my review for the Update. "The story ends on a observe of realization that can be understood variously as an indicate agreement of consecration or as the triumph of a practical founding, or perhaps each."New readers bring into being been basically as spirited. Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann calls the book "a policewoman story with cultural beginning and a spiritual bar," and Booklist describes it as an "eclectic and entrancing microhistory." Perhaps the highest severe and recounting pay a visit to, while, came from the estimate who hailed "The Rarest Azure" as an "Indiana Jones-style chemistry epitome." Conspicuously, it is one book combining chemistry and Torah that is a real page-turner.The annual affect of the annual Jewish Update Engage Nugget is particular by the Journal's book editor. The prize is not explicit to Jewish authors or books on Jewish subjects, but "The Rarest Azure" is an experiment of a book that is good of consequence each for its teacher merit and for its Jewish plead. A intense book, a good go.
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