Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Haifa-born Hadara Lazar calls Britain’s Palestine Mandate a period of great expectations, “central to the Israeli...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER What do you say when the young son you’ve just put to bed looks up at...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hirsh Goodman used to be infuriated by the question of whether Israel can survive; of what...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Although the Torah frowns on joy at other people’s suffering, perhaps Jews may be permitted, if...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER An adoring biography by a famous and controversial man’s son hardly is a surprise, yet Gilad...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Long ago, I learned that you can’t judge a book by its title. But when I...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Chances are pretty good that most of us, or someone we know, can trace a family...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Irène Némirovsky’s slender novel is a model of economy, capturing an enormous range of emotion and...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Watching Hitler consolidate power while America slept was so dismaying to U.S. Ambassador William E. Dodd...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Remember the wire-service photo in 2000 of a bleeding civilian sitting in front of a shouting,...
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