Books & Literature

by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor There is no question the traditional Askenazi-American diet can be a little heavy. While...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Life can be difficult when you’re torn among three loves. Mickey Simhoni is a graduate of...

by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor The Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, along with editor Susan Weinberg, has...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you think you’d like to live forever, novelist Dara Horn’s protagonist Rachel would suggest thinking...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a September 2017 appearance on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show, cartoonist Eli Valley said, regarding the aim...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Eddy Portnoy’s charming collection of strange Jewish news stories begins by describing an all-but-vanished press that...

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home, by Mark Mazower, Other Press, 381 pages, $25.95...

Three Floors Up, by Eshkol Nevo, Other Press, 283 pages, $16.95 trade paperback Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Recognizable characters and...

Memories After My Death: The Story of My father, Joseph “Tommy” Lapid, by Yair Lapid, Thomas Dunne, 330 pages, $27.99....

Suzanne’s Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris, by Anne Nelson, Simon & Schuster, 318 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL...