Archive of Past Reviews in Summer 2009
Jewish Book World
HUNTING EICHMANN: HOW A BAND OF SURVIVORS AND A YOUNG SPY AGENCY CHASED DOWN THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORIOUS NAZI
Neal Bascomb
Reviewed by Arlene B. Soifer
LANDMARK OF THE SPIRIT: THE ELDRIDGE STREET SYNAGOGUE
Annie Polland; Bill Moyers, fwd.
Reviewed by Maron L. Waxman
NORENE’S HEALTHY KITCHEN
Norene Gilletz
Reviewed by Miriam Bauer
FROM KRAKOW TO KRYPTON: JEWS AND COMIC BOOKS
Arie Kaplan
Reviewed by Steven M. Bergson
THE CHOSEN BOOKS: WHAT MAKES A BOOK JEWISH?
Josh Lambert
GOOD BOOK: THE BIZARRE, HILARIOUS, DISTURBING, MARVELOUS, AND INSPIRING THINGS I LEARNED WHEN I READ EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THE BIBLE
David Plotz
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop
ROSENFELD’S LIVES: FAME, OBLIVION, AND THE FURIES OF WRITING
Steven J. Zipperstein
Reviewed by Bettina Eileen Berch
JACOB’S LEGACY: A GENETIC VIEW OF JEWISH HISTORY
David B. Goldstein
Reviewed by Juli Berwald
A MAD DESIRE TO DANCE
Elie Wiesel; Catherine Temerson, trans.
Reviewed by Sydelle Shamah
SHALOM INDIA HOUSING SOCIETY
Esther David
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop
JEWS AND SHOES
Edna Nahshon
Reviewed by Paula Lubin
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,THE BIBLE!
Jonathan Goldstein
Reviewed by Joshua Daniel Edwin
RHYMING LIFE AND DEATH
Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.
Reviewed by Bob Goldfarb
ARGUING THE MODERN JEWISH CANON: ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN HONOR OF RUTH R. WISSE
Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubinstein, eds.
Reviewed by Josh Lambert
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