Truth in fiction?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Eshkol Nevo's writer protagonist has been diagnosed as suffering from dysthymia, but that feeling of chronic ...
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How the Nazis took over Germany
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Even the Nazis were surprised at how quickly and easily they took over Germany. In Hitler’s ...
Couple splits in comic tale
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It was his waking thought many mornings: “Something is wrong. There is trouble. I am in ...
Jews: the eternal victims?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When Jews were dispersed among the nations and defenseless, they were easy to blame for their ...
Dying once is enough
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How Simon Stranger’s last name is pronounced in Norwegian, I don’t know, but pronounced in English, ...
When the past is a riddle
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hans Neumann, a young Czech sought by the Gestapo for failing to report for deportation, chose ...
Interpreting the U.S.-Nazi connection
Reviewed by Neal Gendler Suspend disbelief and you can enjoy the Shoah-related tension that builds in A.J. Sidransky's novel, The ...
‘Track Changes’ — A story upends lives
Reviewed by Neal Gendler Sayed Kashua’s narrator is an Israeli Arab who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, even home with ...
Etgar Keret embraces the weird
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you’re fond of short, strange, sad stories, you’ll love Etgar Keret’s new book. The title ...
What an eyeless Jewish astronomer saw
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Adam Ehrlich Sachs is possessed of a great imagination, a sense of the absurd and the ...
