A novel about the controversial Transfer Agreement
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Ask most U.S. baby boomer Jews and their offspring about Haim Arlosoroff and it’s a good ...
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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 ...
A historian’s complicated motives
The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust, by Lisa Moses Leff, ...
Irving Berlin’s ‘love song’
God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song, by Sheryl Kaskowitz, Oxford, 224 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
‘Resistance was the exception’
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec, Oxford, 245 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER ...
The maestro as a man
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein, by Jonathan Cott, Oxford, 183 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
Standing up, speaking out
Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism, by Gil Troy, Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Daniel ...
A grotesque, shameful reality
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Poles living near death camps such as Treblinka found both pleasure and profit in the killing ...
Before the Big Leagues were integrated
Jewish sports entrepreneurs and black baseball players forged unusual relationships in the early part of the 20th century Reviewed by ...
How the rats escaped
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER A sad, shameful, too-little discussed fact about the Shoah is that most of the perpetrators got ...
