Books & Literature
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,...
The journey to unbelief
All Who Go Do Not Return, by Shulem Deen, Graywolf, 310 pages, $16 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Shulem Deen’s journey...
Peace on the plateau
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Books and an acclaimed documentary film have made the French Huguenot village of Le Chambon and...
Lincoln’s ‘valued friends’
Lincoln and the Jews: A History, by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, St. Martins, 272 pages, $40 Reviewed by...
Does terrorism work?
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947, by Bruce Hoffman, Knopf, 618 pages, $35 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER After reading...
Overwhelmed by past and present
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, by Göran Rosenberg, Other Press, 331 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
A writer’s ‘mitzva forgeries’
A Replacement Life, by Boris Fishman, Harper Perennial, 352 pages, paperback, $14.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In this charming novel,...
A young Holocaust survivor’s perspective
Childhood, by Jona Oberski, 95 pages, Penguin Classics trade paperback, $14 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Reluctantly, I confess that to...
A mother’s personal struggles
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family, by Roger Cohen, Knopf, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
