Come and Play, in Israel! Celebrate Purim this year with the lovable stars of the all-new Shalom Sesame. Be Happy, It’s Purim!, disc 6 in the series

Films The Human Resources Manager Central to this humorous Israeli film, based on A.B. Yehoshua’s novel A Woman in Jerusalem, is the transformation of the unnamed

  To the End of the Land by David Grossman. Translated by Jessica Cohen. (Knopf, 592 pp. $26.95) In the summer of 2006, in the

Brief Reviews: In Fiction, as in Life, Becoming a Mensch February 2011 Films The Human Resources Manager Central to this humorous Israeli film, based on

Films Army of Crime What Paris’s Nazi occupiers label an “army of crime” is in fact a group of refugees and communists, mostly Jews, led

FICTION Rich Boy, Sharon Pomerantz’s debut novel, exemplifies book publisher Twelve’s mission to bring out only 12 books a year that “explain our culture,” works

The 16-foot hourglass of polished steel, reflecting an inverted sky and surrounding landscape, shines at the highest point of the grounds of the hilltop Israel

Max Berenzon, son of a Paris art dealer, is fascinated by his father’s new assistant, Rose Clément. But it’s 1939, and though Rose’s brilliance and