Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry Princeton University Press, 368 pp. Each year
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Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice By Gregory S. Gordon University of Virginia Press, 520
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley Farrar, Straus
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My Lover, the Rabbi By Wayne Koestenbaum Farrar Straus and Giroux, 464 pp. It could be wisdom, it could
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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation By Michael Lowenthal Mad Creek Books, 296 pp I, too, have been
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Central to Yiddish’s complex history is regret for a future that could have been if only had there not been a Holocaust. ...
When bishops and rabbis excoriated necromancers it was more a question of keeping that magical talent in clerical hands than one of efficacy. ...
When a director of an Israeli spy agency retires, there is a burst of interest in what they will reveal about secret operations—and what they’ve really thought about Israeli leaders. ...
Reading Joanna Olczak-Ronikier’s book about her family, I was reminded of my first morning in Poland on a reporting assignment in 1981. ...
Labeling it a glorified scrapbook wouldn’t fit the bill, though its fusion of words and images, its blurring of the self and the collective, brings one to mind. ...
Lev’s wise and witty stories trace the lives and struggles of Baka’s denizens over the three decades following the 1967 Six-Day War. ...
What would Brandeis make of a Supreme Court that rules in favor of granting presidential immunity from criminal prosecution and puts corporate interests above the populace? ...