Books & Literature
Love and loss in Poland
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Millie Werber was fortunate to survive the Shoah, but like so many others, not without terrible...
A pioneer in journalism
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Rachel Beer, daughter of the hugely wealthy Sassoon family, was born six or seven decades too...
Meet ‘Mengele’s mouthpiece’
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The strangely organized Druggist of Auschwitz is filled with distressing ghastliness and stunning prevarication — and...
A history of the Old City
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem: The Biography is monumental, not only for size but for thoroughness, which...
Hiding Nico
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER For many Jews, comedy — even in the constant unease of a minor key — won’t...
Remembering Israel, before 1948
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Haifa-born Hadara Lazar calls Britain’s Palestine Mandate a period of great expectations, “central to the Israeli...
A history of lies
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER What do you say when the young son you’ve just put to bed looks up at...
Whither Israel?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hirsh Goodman used to be infuriated by the question of whether Israel can survive; of what...
Germany’s postwar hardship
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Although the Torah frowns on joy at other people’s suffering, perhaps Jews may be permitted, if...
Sharon, by his son
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER An adoring biography by a famous and controversial man’s son hardly is a surprise, yet Gilad...
