Books & Literature
Do Jews deserve a nation at all?
Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict, by John B. Judis, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 432...
The heartbreak of returning
The Exiles Return, by Elisabeth de Waal, Picador, 366 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER One of the mysteries of...
A Jew in Germany
Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany, by Yascha Mounk, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 261 pages,...
Israel’s dual reality
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, by Ari Shavit, Spiegel and Grau, 445 pages, $28 Reviewed by...
An inside look at life in the USSR
Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business, by Leslie Levine Adler and Meryll Levine Page, Salt...
Wisdom disguised as humor
Winning Isn’t Everything: Stories, Poems, Essays, Sermons, by Gerald M. Siegel, Morton Publishing trade paperback, 267 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by...
Surviving a life of turmoil
The Boxer’s Story, by Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris, Robson Press, 246 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Nathan Shapow’s...
Hanuka has taken its place in American culture
Hanukkah in America: A History, by Dianne Ashton, New York University, 368 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you...
Living through the great Jewish upheavals
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, by David Laskin, Viking, 383 pages, $32 Reviewed by...
The fate of Israel’s utopian dreams
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, by Yossi Klein Halevi, Harper,...
