Books & Literature
An inside look at life in the USSR
Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business, by Leslie Levine Adler and Meryll Levine Page, Salt...
Wisdom disguised as humor
Winning Isn’t Everything: Stories, Poems, Essays, Sermons, by Gerald M. Siegel, Morton Publishing trade paperback, 267 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by...
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,...
