Books & Literature
David Ben-Gurion was no democrat
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, by Anita Shapira, Yale, 288 pages, $25 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER “David Ben-Gurion’s greatest years...
Thoughts on today’s rabbinic leaders
Keeping Faith in Rabbis: A Community Conversation on Rabbinical Education, by Rabbi Hayim Herring and Ellie Roscher, Avenida, 249 pages,...
‘Jonah, here I am’
The Book of Jonah, by Joshua Max Feldman, Henry Holt, 336 pages, $28 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The swift, improbable...
Indicting the Nazi SS — in 1933
Hitler’s First Victims: The Quest for Justice, by Timothy Ryback, Knopf, $26.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Stranger than fiction: In...
An Israel love story
Israel: Is It Good for the Jews? by Richard Cohen, Simon and Schuster, 273 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
An exhaustive portrait of evil
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, by Bettina Stangneth, translated by Ruth Martin, Knopf, 579 pages,...
The Shoah’s secret society
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors, by R.D. Rosen, Harper, 280 pages, $25.99 Reviewed by...
A wife’s captivating tribute
Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me, by Lucinda Franks; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pages, $28 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If...
Solving crime in Tel Aviv
A Possibility of Violence, by D.A. Mishani, 282 pages, Harper, $26.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER D.A. Mishani’s catchy crime novel...
The real Anne
Anne Frank: The Biography, by Melissa Müller, Picador, 480 pages, $18 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER German author Melissa Müller set...
