Jews: the eternal victims?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When Jews were dispersed among the nations and defenseless, they were easy to blame for their ...
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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 ...
When Jews were homesteaders
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Five years ago, a newspaper editor interviewing Rebecca Bender about her plans to preserve a rural ...
Be a mensch
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Joshua Hammerman wants to amplify the importance of being a mensch in a world with a ...
A mourner’s tale
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How much repentance is enough, and how does one compensate when profits from dishonesty were used ...
