Books

Tale of the heroic everyman

Review “Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune” by Roni Robbins. Oegstgeest, Netherlands: Amsterdam Publishers, 2022. 230 pages. $19.95. Sam...

Novelist A.B. Yehoshua, dissector and lover of Israel and the Jews, dies at 85

A.B. Yehoshua the novelist took a sharp knife to his fellow citizens’ pretensions and delusions, writing books that laid Israel bare like an open...
Meyer Lansky

Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with...

By Howard Lovy The way author Michael Benson tells it, one day in 1938, New York judge and Jewish communal leader Nathan Perlman sat at...

‘Let There Be Light’ finds meaning between the lines

Liana Finck’s “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation” is hardly the first time a mere mortal reinterpreted the story of...

Author Eric Rozenman on the decline of just about everything

Review “From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack Obama” by Eric Rozenman. Washington:...

Don’t recycle the Maxwell House Haggadah just yet

“The Rational Passover Seder, The Alperson Edition” by Dennis Prager. Edited by Joseph Telushkin. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Faith, 2022. 180 pages. $29.99. “Night of Beginnings:...

Jews and the NBA. What could be better?

Review “By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream” by Dan Grunfeld. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2021. 288...

A troubled family in crisis

Review “The Tenderest of Strings” by Steven Schwartz. Raleigh, N.C.: Regal House Publishing, 2022. 262 pages. $9.99. We humans have been living together in societies for...

A ‘Maus’ for every kid? The great ‘Maus’ giveaway is on as bookstores, professors...

By Andrew Lapin A rural Tennessee school board’s decision earlier this month to remove “Maus,” the Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, poses in Paris, March...

‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author wins lifetime achievement award

By Penny Schwartz Jane Yolen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s book author whose oeuvre of more than 400 books includes the bestselling Holocaust time-travel novel...