book review Archives

15 Mar

Book Review, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Spring issue 2021

Book Review | A Family in Pen and Ink

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Robert Siegel

December 20, 2021

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In the rise and fall of Hitler’s Germany, villains, victims and heroes figure profusely and are easily recognized.

31 Jan

2021 January/February, Book Review, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Power of DNA, Dolls and Delis

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Samira K. Mehta

March 24, 2022

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Last month, The New York Times published a piece called “Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah.”

18 Jan

2021 January/February, Book Review, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | Making Room for Ghosts

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Barbara Goldberg

December 20, 2021

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Sutzkever’s “essential prose,” which could also be called “prose poetry” or “brief narratives,” has slipped by, little noticed. Until now.

05 Jan

2021 January/February, Book Review, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Failure of Impartiality

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Robert Siegel

December 20, 2021

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Barack Obama’s transformation from youthful and eloquent U.S. Senate candidate to prime-time sensation and putative presidential timber came at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

16 Nov

2020 November/December, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | A Writer Winks at Her City

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Susan Keselenko Coll

March 26, 2022

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Every movie I watch now is a movie about an entire cast of people who seem to not have cancer, or at least this is, to me, its plot,” Anne Boyer observes in The Undying, her recent Pulitzer Prize-winning inquiry into cancer.

16 Nov

2020 November/December, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | A Spymaster Breaks His Silence

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Dan Raviv

April 16, 2022

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When you start reading a memoir by a former spy, you always hope for descriptions of bloody assassinations, break-ins into banks and embassies, and heart-pounding high-speed chases.

30 Sep

2020 September/October, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | A Poet Talks to Hashem—and Trump

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Marge Piercy

December 22, 2021

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Alicia Ostriker’s new collection comprises selected poems from seven previous volumes. Ostriker has been an important poet for the past 45 years.

30 Sep

2020 September/October, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Other Side of Dementia

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Frances Brent

December 22, 2021

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If you live long enough, you will notice a paradox of aging: Diminishment of memory can sometimes go hand in hand with a greater capacity for complexity and for the kind of revelation that can be seen only through shadow.

22 Jun

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest

Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil

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Eugene L. Meyer

June 28, 2021

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1939: A People’s History By Frederick Taylor W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30 Library shelves are full of books whose titles celebrate, commemorate or contemplate a...

10 Jun

Summer Issue 2020, World

Book Review | Cleansing the Continent

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Michael Brenner

December 22, 2021

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There are many ways to explain the Holocaust. But not many historians have proffered a different theory with each published book.

10 Jun

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Summer Issue 2020

Book Review | Philip Roth’s Jewish America

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Robert Siegel

December 22, 2021

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The first time I read a book by Philip Roth, I read it from back to front.

we are not here to be bystanders by linda sarsour

13 Apr

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest

Book Review | ‘We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders’

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Robert Siegel

August 20, 2024

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In his foreword to Linda Sarsour’s memoir of political activism, Harry Belafonte remarks, “It wasn’t that long ago that we lost Martin and Malcom and Bobby.” He is comparing the vilification of Sarsour, the hijab-wearing, Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American, for her anti-Israeli politics to the murderous racist violence of the 1960s. It seems a stretch.