Searching for a bridge to the past
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jason Sommer had an uneasy childhood with a smart, gregarious father whose Shoah experience hovered just ...
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‘Sadie on a Plate’ spans romance, cooking
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Sadie Rosen will never cook lunch in Seattle again. Fired from the Green Onion, where she ...
On hating Jews, who are both lesser and greater
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER David Baddiel says that among typical progressives whose hearts bleed for every oppressed minority, Jews don’t ...
Shoah survival story comes full circle
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Life-changing chance encounters, common in fiction, also occur in real life, as many married couples can ...
David Grossman writes of three women and family dysfunction
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you’re looking for happiness in David Grossman’s new novel, you’ll need a magnifying glass — ...
Mass murder at the shul in Squirrel Hill
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When asked to review Mark Oppenheimer’s book about the killings at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, ...
Millie returns to Germany after the war
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER People in Ellen Feldman’s new novel, The Living and the Lost, are full of secrets. We ...
A miscarriage of justice
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The arrest and conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as Soviet spies was an enormous shanda ...
A Latin American Jewish family saga
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Ellis Island tends to dominate thinking about Jews’ immigration to America. But there’s another America. Who ...
Uncounted women of the Jewish resistance in Poland
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Almost all Jews know of Anne Frank, and many know of Hannah Senesh, who bravely parachuted ...
