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.
Fiction: Poetic License
There was no traffic along Ardmore Road, but Sarah Rabinowitz carefully signaled the turn onto Cornus Plaza, slowed and double-checked to make sure Irving Clurman
Books: Fight or Flight
Fiction Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 182 pp. $22) In Scenes from Village Life , Amos Oz paints
Books for Kids, from Toddlers to Teens
A Hebrew-speaking dinosaur, a mischievous young wizard, a Jewish boy training to be a boxer in Nazi Germany and cheerful mitzva-teaching meerkats are but a
Books: Cromwell, the Habiru and the Shoah
Five books explore four complex people(s), places and events. Gloria Goldreich reviews two books that look at the enigma of writer Irene Nemirovsky—in her fiction
Books: Hadassah, Through Feminist and Zionist Lenses
Just in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish and
Books: From Berlin to Israel
NONFICTION Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 418 pp. $28) Novelist, columnist, playwright, memoirist, winner of
Summer Reading Into Fall: Spies, Supermen, Sleuths and Spirits
From Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon thriller to a V.I. Warshowski mystery by Sara Paretsky, there is plenty of good fiction to engage you. Satisfyingly,
Profile: David Grossman
In a perfect world, novelist David Grossman would be at home writing books all day. But in this world, the world-renowned author of both adult