Books & Literature
The surprise of growing old
Being Esther: A Novel, by Miriam Karmel, Milkweed Editions, 187 pages, $22 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER A bittersweet joy, the...
Reliving a Holocaust experience
Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss, W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95...
Chronicling Minnesota's largest art theft
The Rockwell Heist: The Extraordinary Theft of Seven Norman Rockwell Paintings and a Phony Renoir — and the 20-Year Chase...
Noah’s wife, with no name
Sinners and the Sea: The Untold Story of Noah’s Wife, by Rebecca Kanner, Howard Books, 320 pages, $24.99 Reviewed by...
Wyatt Earp’s Jewish wife
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp, by Ann Kirschner, Harper, 304 pages, $27.99 Reviewed...
George W. Bush’s Mideast policy
Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Elliott Abrams, Cambridge, 288 pages, $30 Reviewed by NEAL...
A life of service, to state and family
Running to Make a Difference, by Leonard Levine, Bascom Hill trade paperback, 236 pages, $17.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Leonard...
The maestro as a man
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein, by Jonathan Cott, Oxford, 183 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
‘Old-fashioned Jew-hatred’
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Neil Kressel’s Sons of Pigs and Apes is too important to deserve the fate of many...
Standing up, speaking out
Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism, by Gil Troy, Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Daniel...
