Books

Review “The Wrong Jew: Defeating Those Who Want Us Dead” by Hesh Kestin. New York: Wicked Son Books, 2021. 200 pages. $27. When he was in...

Review “The Slaughterman’s Daughter,” by Yaniv Iczkovits, translated by Orr Scharf The year is 5654 in the Pale of Settlement (1894 to you Gregorians out there)....

Review “Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes” Gabrielle Korn Atria Books When Gabrielle Korn was a Jewish teenager growing up on Long...

Review “Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice” Rachel B. Gross NYU Press Rachel B. Gross, a professor of Jewish studies at San Francisco State University, is...

Review “The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity” by Micah Goodman. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2020. 190 pages. $30. Many religious...

Review “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters” Rosanna Warren W.W. Norton & Co. The European Jewish artists, writers and thinkers of Max Jacob’s generation tended to...

When Iris Mitlin Lav was readying for retirement in 2016, she sat down to jot out some notes about what she might do. After...

Review “Jerusalem as a Second Language” by Rochelle Distelheim. Ashburn, Va.: Aubade Publishing, 2020. 283 pages. $17.95. If Rochelle Distelheim paints an accurate portrait, the Jews...

Review "The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China" by Jonathan Kaufman. New York: Viking Press, 2020. 298 pages....

Raph the dodo isn’t like most birds. He can’t fly. But with those strong legs, he comes to find he’s proficient at another skill:...