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Bob Goldfarb Bob Goldfarb is president of Jewish Creativity International. Reviews Articles Fiction Hope: A Tragedy Shalom Auslander Fiction Nazi Literature in the Americas Roberto Bolano; Chris Andrews, trans. Nonfiction Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It Howard Jacobson Fiction No More Mr. Nice Guy Howard Jacobson Nonfiction The Girl From Foreign Sadia Shepard Fiction What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories Nathan Englander Nonfiction Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine Jonathan Garfinkel Nonfiction Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought Joshua A. Berman Fiction Rhyming Life and Death Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans. Nonfiction The Amos Oz Reader Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.; Nitza Ben-Dov, ed. Nonfiction Israel is Real Rich Cohen Nonfiction Einstein on Israel and Zionism Fred Jerome Nonfiction The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Susannah Heschel Nonfiction The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature Alvin Rosenfeld Fiction Crossing the Hudson Peter Stephan Jungk; David Dollenmayer, trans. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 5 Next page ›› Interview “Crunchy Chords”: A Conversation with Ricky Ian Gordon Bob Goldfarb July 15, 2024 Interview ‘Watershed Moments’: A Conversation with Max Gross Bob Goldfarb December 14, 2020 Interview ‘Life as a Dislocating Experience’: A Conversation with David Adjmi Bob Goldfarb November 23, 2020 Interview Sontag: A Conversation with Benjamin Moser Bob Goldfarb September 23, 2019 Interview An Interview with James Loeffler Bob Goldfarb October 18, 2018 Interview Creating Coherence Out of Formlessness Bob Goldfarb June 7, 2018 Interview Interview: Ian Buruma with Bob Goldfarb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buruma tells the extraordinary story of his own grandparents: British Jews who were apart during the World Wars and stayed… Bob Goldfarb February 2, 2016 Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Fattal by Bob GoldfarbBob Goldfarb recently spoke to Joshua Fattal, who co-authored, alongside Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, the recently published book A Sliver of Light:… Bob Goldfarb July 10, 2014 Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Cohen In its review of Four New Messages the New York Times said of Joshua Cohen, “he’ll make you want to be an angel investor in his stuff. What’s a book but… Bob Goldfarb August 29, 2012 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Aharon Appelfeld and Nicole Krauss Bob Goldfarb has been blogging all week at the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. More than a generation separates novelist Nicole Krauss,… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: JSF and Amir Gutfreund Bob Goldfarb has been blogging about the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim all week. Stay tuned for his final post later today.Jonathan Safran… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Paul Auster and David Grossman In his previous posts on the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Bob Goldfarb wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,”… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010 Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Nonfiction The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Susannah Heschel
Interview ‘Life as a Dislocating Experience’: A Conversation with David Adjmi Bob Goldfarb November 23, 2020
Interview Interview: Ian Buruma with Bob Goldfarb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buruma tells the extraordinary story of his own grandparents: British Jews who were apart during the World Wars and stayed… Bob Goldfarb February 2, 2016
Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Fattal by Bob GoldfarbBob Goldfarb recently spoke to Joshua Fattal, who co-authored, alongside Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, the recently published book A Sliver of Light:… Bob Goldfarb July 10, 2014
Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Cohen In its review of Four New Messages the New York Times said of Joshua Cohen, “he’ll make you want to be an angel investor in his stuff. What’s a book but… Bob Goldfarb August 29, 2012
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Aharon Appelfeld and Nicole Krauss Bob Goldfarb has been blogging all week at the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. More than a generation separates novelist Nicole Krauss,… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: JSF and Amir Gutfreund Bob Goldfarb has been blogging about the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim all week. Stay tuned for his final post later today.Jonathan Safran… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Paul Auster and David Grossman In his previous posts on the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Bob Goldfarb wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,”… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010
