Books & Literature

The Spanish Inquisition devastated Jewish life in Spain, as Jews had to either convert to Catholicism or flee, in 1492....

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Old sailor Herman Wouk has learned some new knots. Much is made of Wouk’s writing a...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Is Superman Jewish? Yes, very much so, at least in his early years, but in his...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Mordechai Anielewicz is honored and memorialized for leading the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which several hundred...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Deborah Feldman was unorthodox long before leaving Orthodoxy. As a child, Feldman led outer and inner...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Thanks to Alicia Oltuski, I learned more than I ever could have imagined about the diamond...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Playing off the title that catapulted him to fame, Rabbi Harold Kushner has produced the book...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Rebirth of Israel has revived the Jewish people and filled us with a confidence lacking for...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Contrary to the usual perception, Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman say that the second Lebanon war...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jonathan Sacks sees the Jewish people today “as divided as it was in the last days...