I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition By Yair Mintzker Princeton University Press, 288 pp.   For

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Carlin Romano reviews Elise Stefanik's new book about the moral rot and antisemitism inside top universities, plagued by scandal. ...

Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries by Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pp.   When he was about the

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Famesick: A Memoir By Lena Dunham Random House, 416 pp.   When you hear the name “Lena Dunham,” who do

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“The moment you try to apply the genocide framework to an ongoing conflict, you move from historical analysis into something far more immediate, contested and politically charged.” ...
We feel acutely the longing for connection and continuity along the generations, the questions around the “right” way to honor the dead, fast on Yom Kippur, navigate Christmas or organize a seder or a bris. ...
Caesar’s wild facial expressions and powerful physicality dominated the small screen for only a few years. ...
With an open race for the White House awaiting us in 2028, how will the new wave of campaign autobiographies fit into this mixed stack of self-examiners and self-promoters? ...

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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