Books & Literature
Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land: Exile and restoration
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Oxford's new History of the Holy Land is an ambitious, erudite and handsome, if incomplete achievement....
Robert Mnookin: The big tent of Judaism
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being Jewish should be a matter of choice, not descent, says Robert Mnookin, who says the...
Alice Walker endorses book by anti-Semitic author
by SAM SOKOL (JTA) — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker has come under intense criticism after endorsing a book by...
Jews and the Qur’an
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER So why should Jews want to read a book called God in the Qur'an? First among...
Éric Vuillard: Financing Hitler
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Judging ÉricVuillard's brief, award-winning The Order of the Day is like trying to evaluate a movie...
Ronald H. Balson: Shattering his character’s safety
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It might seem that every possible Shoah-related story has been written, but historians, novelists and most...
Yuval Noah Harari: The shape of things to come
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence are propelling us to enormous social and economic upheaval, possibly...
Hitler’s American Friends: Swastikas carried beside American flags
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Most of us, born after 1940, know only secondhand of the wide, socially acceptable anti-Semitism in...
MaNishtana: A black, Orthodox rabbi’s novel addresses racism in the Jewish community
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK (JTA) — When Shais Rishon thinks of American Jewish literature, virtually no Jews of color...
Tal Keinan: Creating a wisdom machine
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If present trends continue, mainstream Jewry in America is doomed, says Tal Keinan, who’s also pessimistic...
