I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax by Scott Ian
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Excerpt from the book: My grandpa Moe was a smart guy but he was broke. So he went to the Lower East Side where there was a...
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Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In 2007, journalist Sarah Wildman discovered a hidden cache of letters in her grandfather’s home office. By that time, her grandfather Karl was no longer living, but he...
Martin Amis and Howard Jacobson Get the Holocaust Backwards, From Different Angles
[…]the appearance of The Zone of Interest, by Martin Amis, and J, by Howard Jacobson, seems like more than a coincidence. These books return to the subject of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, as to...
Jeffrey M. Green considers the challenges—and successes—of Hebrew literature
Recently I had the privilege of translating a novella by S. Y. Agnon, the only Israeli author who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for a volume being prepared by Professor Alan Mintz...
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth
Adolf Eichmann Is Alive and Well and Living in the Middle East Philosopher Bettina Stangneth’s brilliant, newly translated study of the origins of evil shows why radicals like ISIS act like Nazis After 50...
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
The book at Amazon and on Kindle The one group of American Jews who still have a vital connection with the immigrant experience are those who came here from the Soviet Union in the...
David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe
The book at Amazon and on Kindle A king’s loves are ever sullied by statecraft. They may be designed from the beginning to foster relations between states, a form of alliance obsessively practiced by...
Naming Jack the Ripper by Russell Edwards
New Book Claims Jack the Ripper Was Jewish DNA said to link Polish barber Aaron Kosminski to gruesome 1888 murders The book at Amazon Russell Edwards, a longtime Ripperologist, as those obsessed with studying...
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
The book at Amazon and on Kindle … I’ve read Florence Gordon, the deliciously sharp and deeply sympathetic new novel by Brian Morton,… [H]ere is a book devoted to a character—Florence Gordon, after whom the...
Books about Stefan Zweig
What is it about Stefan Zweig that has so captured the contemporary imagination? In the last year alone, the elusive Austrian writer was the named inspiration for Wes Anderson’s recent film The Grand Budapest...
