Books & Literature
A young girl in the ghetto
Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto, edited by Anita Friedman, Harper, 240 pages, $35...
Memories of a Persian widow
The Girl from the Garden, by Parnaz Foroutan, Ecco, 271 pages, $26.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being born female in...
A historian’s complicated motives
The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust, by Lisa Moses Leff,...
Pissarro’s mother, a free spirit
The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, Simon and Schuster, 365 pages, $27.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Around Rachel, the...
'Ally': A diplomat bridges the divide
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, by Michael Oren, Random House, 412 pages, $30 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER From...
Two liberations
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath, by Dan Stone, Yale University Press, 288...
'Mike's Place': Blues and a bombing
Mike’s Place: A True Story of Love, Blues and Terror in Tel Aviv, by Jack Baxter, Joshua Faudem and Koren...
A Jewish war hero
Single-Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor (Teddy) Rubin — Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero and Medal of Honor Recipient,...
The youngest Shoah survivors
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance and Hope, by Wendy Holden, Harper, 385 pages,...
Saul Bellow’s nonfiction
There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, by Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor, Viking, 544 pages,...
