Books & Literature

By STEPHEN SILVER (JTA) — In the late 1960s, when Neal Karlen was not even 10 years old, he would...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Bipolar disorder isn't funny — not for those afflicted by it nor for those around the...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Eshkol Nevo's writer protagonist has been diagnosed as suffering from dysthymia, but that feeling of chronic...

AJW Staff Report In explaining how to use his new cookbook, award-winning food writer Michael Aaron Gardiner points out: "My...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Even the Nazis were surprised at how quickly and easily they took over Germany. In Hitler’s...

Reviewed by LISA WALKER Growing up as a young Jewish girl in the 1970s, I looked forward to the Purim...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It was his waking thought many mornings: “Something is wrong. There is trouble. I am in...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When Jews were dispersed among the nations and defenseless, they were easy to blame for their...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How Simon Stranger’s last name is pronounced in Norwegian, I don’t know, but pronounced in English,...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Persistent and resourceful Esther Safran Foer would have made a fine detective. I Want You to...