Books & Literature
Philip Roth, enfant terrible turned peerless chronicler of American Jewish life, dies
JTA Staff Report (JTA) — Philip Roth, whose notorious novels about the sex drives of American men gave way to...
David Hirshberg: Secular Jews after WWII
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Joel, one year retired from 47 years of telling stories five nights a week over a...
Ehud Barak: Hebrew for ‘lightning’
Ehud Barak, former commando, chief of staff, prime minister and defense minister, says that Israel is facing its deepest crisis,...
Klarsfeld: On the trail of Nazis
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hunting Nazis wasn’t on Beate Künzel’s mind the day she met Serge Klarsfeld while waiting at...
Jonathan Weisman: Inside three sets of parentheses
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jonathan Weisman discovered America’s new anti-Semitism when he received a tweet with his name inside three...
Steven Zipperstein: On the slaughter
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was one of many in Czarist and early Bolshevik Russia...
Jonathan Rabb: A survivor in Georgia
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being pursued by two women may sound like a bachelor’s dream, but for Yitzhak Goldah, a...
Buczacz: The life and death of a Jewish town
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Little is needed to shatter the veneer of ethnic coexistence, as tragically illustrated in Buczacz, once...
Lee Friedlander brings his camera to the party
Yale University Press has published another volume in its series documenting the work of renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. Parties: The...
Paul Goldberg writes about journalists and old Russians
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Readers of Paul Goldberg’s first hit novel won’t be surprised by his characterization of plastic surgeon...
