By Mikhail Krutikov
Was Sir Moses Haim Montefiore the first Jewish celebrity of the modern age? A strong affirmative is the thesis of Abigail Green’s “Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero,” a biography of the most famous Jew of the 19th century.
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By Nathan Abrams
Following speculative top-100 lists of Jewish movie moments and Jewish movies, the arrival of the more serious ‘The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema’ is timely.
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By Benjamin Ivry
Benjamin Stora combines history and self-history. He has become embroiled in controversy over the role of Muslims in saving French Jews from the Holocaust.
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By Mark Oppenheimer
Shalom Auslander’s major theme in his new novel is the burden of the Jewish past. There is no symbol of that burden more powerful than Anne Frank.
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By Gordon Haber
e-books are a bright spot in the dismal economics of publishing. One in six Americans now uses an e-reader, and that number is growing fast.
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By Shoshana Olidort
Peter Orner’s ‘Love and Shame and Love’ is a refreshing departure from the shtetl nostalgia shtick that has come to typify contemporary American Jewish fiction.
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By Vladislav Davidzon
Peter Nadas’s ‘Parallel Stories’ is colossally ambitious. Set in Hungary of 1961 and extending to the falling of the Iron Curtain, it encapsulates an entire civilization.
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By Christopher Hitchens
Read a Forward essay by the late Christopher Hitchens, in which he discusses Jewish genes, the fear that perpetuates antisemitism, and discovering his own Jewish roots late in life.
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By Shoshana Olidort
A mother and son are on the run at the start of Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel. The survivor and chronicler of Jewish suffering continues his exploration of the depths of human tragedy.
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By Jerome A. Chanes
The history of Yavneh was the history of 20th-century American Orthodoxy itself, refracted through the prism of the campus.Read More
