Book Review // Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising
By Konstanty Gebert. Over the past few years, a series of books has brought to the attention of English-speaking readers the morally challenging, historically important and often overlooked or forgotten story of the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II, and of the terrible fate of the Poles under German rule.
Book Review | Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Before I began reading Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem’s new novel, I was advised to obtain a copy of Vivian Gornick’s Romance of American Communism for a little crash course on its context.
Book Review: The Book of Schmaltz by Michael Ruhlman
Think you know what to eat to stay healthy? That fats are bad for you? That you will never again be able to enjoy the umami taste of schmaltz on a piece of matzoh? Or the crunch of gribenes (chicken-skin cracklings) that brings back the joys of your grandmother’s kitchen?
Book Review | Countrymen by Bo Lidegaard
Shortly after my bar mitzvah in 1943 at the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen, where my father had arrived from Czechoslovakia in 1934 to be the chief cantor, the roof caved in with all the uncertainties, terror and threats of annihilation. My family, along with some seven to eight thousand Danish Jews, were forced to flee their homes.
Book Review: The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
Reviewed by Clyde Haberman
Book Review: The Rise of Abraham Cahan
Reviewed by Jonathan Brent
Book Review | More Desired than Our Owne Salvation
Paul Baumann reviews "More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism" by Robert O. Smith
Book Review | Country of Ash
Vivian Gornick reviews "Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945," by Edward Reicher
Travels with Pnin
In college, I made the ill-advised decision to join the cross-country ski team. Slow, given to daydreams, and so lacking any sense of direction that...
Book Review | Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
Saul Friedländer
Yale University Press
2013, $25.00, pp. 200
“Dearest Max, my last request: everything I leave behind me…in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and...
Book Review / Menachem Begin: A Life
Martin Indyk reviews "Menachem Begin: A Life," by Avi Shilon