Books & Literature
Briton proved Einstein’s theory
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Having years earlier become a Swiss citizen, German-born Albert Einstein did not have to fight for...
Murder mystery set in Minneapolis
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Unfortunately, when private investigator Nils Shapiro takes a murder case, dead people keep accumulating. In Broken...
What an eyeless Jewish astronomer saw
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Adam Ehrlich Sachs is possessed of a great imagination, a sense of the absurd and the...
When Jews were homesteaders
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Five years ago, a newspaper editor interviewing Rebecca Bender about her plans to preserve a rural...
Be a mensch
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Joshua Hammerman wants to amplify the importance of being a mensch in a world with a...
A mourner’s tale
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How much repentance is enough, and how does one compensate when profits from dishonesty were used...
Book raises profile of extraordinary American Jewish women
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK (JTA) — While looking at family photos, historian Pamela Nadell noticed how female relatives dressed...
Jack J. Hersch: Out of Mauthausen
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hungarian David Arieh Hersch is said to be the only person to have escaped twice from...
Antisemitism: Irrational, delusional and absurd
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Anti-Semitism, the world's oldest hatred, is coming back in style, occasionally overtly but more often in...
Anne Frank’s image and self-image
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Three concerns arise immediately when confronting Ari Folman's and David Polansky's clever, illustrated adaptation of Anne...
