Book Review | The Failure of Aryan Physics
The spiraling arms race of the Cold War was thus set off by the bomb that German physicists recognized was beyond their reach.
Book Review | A Rebbe with a Fiddle and No Followers
“There is much to be charmed by in this novel and even more to learn from it.”
Book Review | With Critics Like These, Israel Will Be Fine
The irony of both books is that they replicate the intellectual sins they ascribe to Zionists—one-sided descriptions of Israeli actions, lack of self-criticism, and suffocating certainty.
Book Review | Kiss Me, I’m Irish and Jewish!
The two million Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I had been preceded by smaller movements of Jews to America: in colonial times, hundreds of Sephardim who fled Inquisitions; later, tens of thousands of Central European, mostly German, Jews who came, saw and prospered phenomenally in the middle of the 19th century.
Book Review | The Young, the Rich and the Guilty
“They were the shining realization of the Jewish American dream, people who could load their plates with all that this country had to offer.”
Book Review | Making Music Was The Best Revenge
Rush’s Geddy Lee, child of Holocaust survivors, left Judaism when “not a single adult relative asked me how I was dealing with my loss.”
Interview | Why An Atheist Wrote His Debut Novel About a Religious Family
“When a family member becomes unrecognizable, says Lloyd, “that’s a tragedy, and any effort to make complete sense of it is bound to fail.”
The Israeli Diaspora Finds A Voice
Moment critic-at-large Carlin Romano reviews the three-part novel series “The Hebrew Teacher” by Maya Arad.
Analysis | After October 7, Holocaust Literature Will Never Be the Same
Generations of Jewish writers have reckoned with the Holocaust: Now there’s a new trauma to contend with.