Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself
By Alan A. Stone
DucClaude Lanzmann is known on this side of the Atlantic as the Frenchman who created the monumental film, Shoah. He tells us that...
Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
The Book Thief is a beautiful but haunting story about a young girl living in Nazi Germany. I first read it several...
Speaking Volumes | My Spring Break with Philip Roth
At the end of 1995, I briefly dropped out of college. It was an unpleasant time, to say the least. I kept asking myself who...
Book Review | The Anti-Semite Who Wasn’t
By John Marszalek
Jonathan Sarna’s book When General Grant Expelled the Jews is going to make a significant splash amidst a wave of new books reevaluating the career...
Book Review | Jerusalem: The Unholy Story
By Arieh O'Sullivan
Jerusalem is in an awful location. There’s no water. It’s far from any main trade route, surrounded by mountains, and sitting on an...
Book Review | They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore
By Pamela Eisenbaum
Daniel Boyarin, professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California Berkeley, may be the most influential scholar of ancient Judaism today. He...