Books & Literature
Surviving a life of turmoil
The Boxer’s Story, by Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris, Robson Press, 246 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Nathan Shapow’s...
Hanuka has taken its place in American culture
Hanukkah in America: A History, by Dianne Ashton, New York University, 368 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you...
Living through the great Jewish upheavals
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, by David Laskin, Viking, 383 pages, $32 Reviewed by...
The fate of Israel’s utopian dreams
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, by Yossi Klein Halevi, Harper,...
Love and cataclysm in Hungary
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s little wonder that by midlife, Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, the author’s handsome father with the brilliant diplomatic...
Delving into the Nazi psyche
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Tales of two men whose high potential led to similar self-destruction mingle in Minneapolis author Jack...
The global phenomenon of anti-Semitism
The Devil That Never Dies, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Little, Brown, 485 pages, $30 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In his...
Reflections of the past
The Retrospective, by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Charming,...
Irving Berlin’s ‘love song’
God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song, by Sheryl Kaskowitz, Oxford, 224 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
‘Resistance was the exception’
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec, Oxford, 245 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
