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Bob Goldfarb Bob Goldfarb is president of Jewish Creativity International. Reviews Articles Nonfiction The Shape of Revelation Zachary Braiterman Nonfiction Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz David N. Myers Nonfiction In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel Fiction Motti Asaf Schurr; Todd Hasak-Lowy, trans. Nonfiction God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars Benjamin Lazier Fiction Tel Aviv Short Stories Shelly Goldman and Joanna Yehiel, ed. Nonfiction Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End Daniel Gordis Nonfiction The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel Martin van Creveld Nonfiction A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction Ruth Franklin Fiction Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever Justin Taylor Nonfiction When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry Gal Beckerman Nonfiction The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz Fiction The Debba Avner Mandelman Nonfiction Major Farran’s Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State David Cesarani Fiction Is It Good For The Jews?: More Stories From The Old Country And The New Adam Biro; Catherine Tihanyi, trans. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 6 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 God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars Benjamin Lazier
Nonfiction When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry Gal Beckerman
Nonfiction The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz
Nonfiction Major Farran’s Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State David Cesarani
Fiction Is It Good For The Jews?: More Stories From The Old Country And The New Adam Biro; Catherine Tihanyi, trans.
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
