04
Oct
Book Review: The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
Reviewed by Clyde Haberman
09
Aug
A Moment with Claudia Roden
Cairo-born Claudia Roden’s first cookbook, A Book of Middle Eastern Food, published in 1968, was described by James Beard as a “landmark in the field of...
26
Jul
Book Review | More Desired than Our Owne Salvation
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By
Paul Baumann
Paul Baumann reviews “More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism” by Robert O. Smith
22
Jul
Book Review | Country of Ash
Vivian Gornick reviews “Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945,” by Edward Reicher
11
Jul
Indie Picks: Politics and Prose
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By
Sala Levin
In this first installment of “Indie Picks,” Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, owners of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, recommend a few of their favorite books to Moment readers.
02
Jul
Travels with Pnin
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By
Nadia Kalman
In college, I made the ill-advised decision to join the cross-country ski team. Slow, given to daydreams, and so lacking any sense of direction that...
20
May
Book Review | Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
Saul Friedländer
Yale University Press
2013, $25.00, pp. 200
“Dearest Max, my last request: everything I leave behind me…in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and...
06
May
Book Review / Menachem Begin: A Life
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By
Martin Indyk
Martin Indyk reviews “Menachem Begin: A Life,” by Avi Shilon
26
Feb
Book Review | The Book of Genesis: A Biography
Jon D. Levenson reviews Ronald Hendel’s new book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography.
26
Feb
Book Review | The Retrospective
Morris Dickstein reviews A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, The Retrospective.
26
Feb
Book Review | FDR and the Jews
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By
Marc Fisher
Marc Fisher reviews FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman.
16
Jan
Noble Books
Nine Nobel laureates reflect on their favorite classic and contemporary Jewish books
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought...