Books & Literature
‘We would tell what happened’
Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation, text by Diana Landau and Linda Sunshine, 334 pages,...
Israel’s ‘surprising triumph’
The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War, by Steven Pressfield, Sentinel, 430 pages, $29.95 Reviewed...
Peace in our hearts and in the world
From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace, by Rabbi Amy Eilberg, 278 pages, Orbis Books, $25...
Motivated by righteousness
50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany, by Steven Pressman, Harper, 296...
A famous (unknown) author
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, by George Prochnik, Other Press, 390 pages, $27.95 Reviewed...
Shtetls in a new light
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe, by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Princeton, 431 pages, $29.95...
Menachem Begin for the Jews
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul, by Daniel Gordis, Schocken, 311 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Daniel Gordis...
Collaborating to save lives in the Shoah
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wasserstein, Harvard, 352 pages,...
The rabbi of modern Israel
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution, by Yehudah Mirsky, Yale, 273 pages, $25 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Like...
Negotiating with the enemy
The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Schalit from Hamas, by Gershon Baskin, The Toby Press, 281 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
