Books & Literature
Love and cataclysm in Hungary
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s little wonder that by midlife, Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, the author’s handsome father with the brilliant diplomatic...
Delving into the Nazi psyche
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and a Fatal Meeting of the Minds at the...
The global phenomenon of anti-Semitism
The Devil That Never Dies, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Little, Brown, 485 pages, $30 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In his...
Reflections of the past
The Retrospective, by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Charming,...
Irving Berlin’s ‘love song’
God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song, by Sheryl Kaskowitz, Oxford, 224 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
‘Resistance was the exception’
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec, Oxford, 245 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
FDR’s evolution on Jewish issues
FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, Belknap Press (Harvard), 433 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
Fiction inspired by the U.N.
The Geneva Option, by Adam LeBor, Bourbon Street Books, 352 pages, $14.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER A good detective story...
A Shoah memoir of courage, perseverance
Sky Tinged Red, by Isaia Eiger, translated by Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, Beaver’s Pond Press, 415 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
A mensch among Jewish gangsters
Augie’s Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip, by Neal Karlen, Minnesota Historical Society, 232 pages,...
