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A recent wave of books continues the Jewish tradition of turning to spiritual and rabbinical texts for help navigating modern-day challenges.
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REVIEW: ‘Dog’ by Yishay Ishi RonWinner of two National Jewish Book Awards, the slim but harrowing volume drags readers deep into the fears and pain of a former Israel Defense Forces officer.
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Michal Goldschmidt’s bookshop in the north of the city has quickly become a cozy new literary hub for English-language readers.
Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century AmericaFive celebrated American-born, secular Jewish artists—Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers and R.B. Kitaj—found inspiration in the Bible, creating modern midrash. In theCity of Promises: A History of the Jews of New YorkCall it the Big Apple. Gotham. Or even, just New York, New York. Anyone who picks up any of the three volumes that make upThe Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Centuryby Joan BaumAlthough the family depicted in David Laskin’s impressively researched and absorbing narrative is his, it is compelling as both memoir and history. It recounts theThe Collini Case: A NovelThe Collini Case: A Novel (Viking Adult, 208 pp. $25.95 cloth, $15 paper) combines murder, love, greed, ambition, politics and Nazis. Written by Ferdinand von Schirach, aThe Retrospective: A Novelby Joseph LowinIn The Retrospective (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pp. $26), adeptly translated by Stuart Schoffman, Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua shows himself to have serious metaphysical and theologicalIn the Courtyard of the Kabbalist: A NovelIn her second book, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (New York Review Books, 207 pp. $16 paper), set in Jerusalem in 1999, Ruchama King Feuerman depictsMany Seconds into the FutureJohn J. Clayton’s work is inextricably tied to humanism, but as his stories, first published in Commentary magazine, make clear, his fiction is unashamedly Jewish.Books: Tradition! An AppreciationFICTION The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol. (W.W. Norton, 273 pp. $24.95) As Molly Antopol’s absorbing eight stories evolve—all of them moving, unresolved but satisfying explorationsFooter Menu Column 2
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