Bursting with sheer chutzpah, four recent collections of short biographies celebrate women who broke barriers, pioneered new fields and made a difference in the world.
Passover Reading: Haggadas and More
As Passover approaches, I am always curious to see if there is a new blockbuster haggada. I didn’t find one this year but there is
The Betrayers: A Novel
Set in Crimea, this books relates a story that is simple on its surface but deeply scrutinizes ethical judgments, even though the events transpire in only one day.
Biographies of Ben-Gurion, Begin
Begin only features as a minor player in Anita Shapira’s biography of David Ben-Gurion, but Israel's first leader is a major foil in Daniel Gordis’s "Menachem Begin: The
Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Both an Arab nationalist and an Islamic fundamentalist, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini sided with Nazi Germany during World War II and agitated against the Jews.
Beyond the Forest
By 2008, Kantor's pictures are in color and include more people—a young woman and her baby, children rehearsing to perform at a retirement home, a table spread with
Book Excerpt: The Golem and the Jinni
Chava is a golem, alone in the world after the man for whom she was created died on the journey to America. Ahmad is a
The Rebbe, Three Views: A Book Roundup
My Rebbe by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. (Maggid, 250 pp. $24.95) Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History by
No Better Time: The Brief Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet The premise of No Better Time—that Israeli Internet pioneer