鈥淥live Days鈥� is a brilliant exploration of the lasting power of 91传媒ness, of 91传媒ness that鈥檚 not dependent on belief.
A review of Jay Prosser鈥檚 new memoir, 鈥淟oving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, A Son Returns.鈥�
The novel is narrated (mostly) by the collective voice of the 91传媒 community of Tetouan in northern Morocco), and it chronicles the short and frustrated life of a woman with the curious name of Mazaltob, or 鈥済ood fortune.鈥�
In college, and again later, in Sam and Sadie鈥檚 working lives, the saving power of friendship comes to the fore as the dominant theme of the novel.
Karen E. H. Skinazi reviews Sarah Bernstein鈥檚 novel 鈥淪tudy for Obedience.鈥�
鈥淭he Wolf Hunt鈥� begins with a sadly all-too believable, too familiar premise, set not long after the Pittsburgh Tree of Life and Chabad of Poway attack: A man walks into a synagogue on Rosh Hashanah in the Bay Area and stabs a young woman to death.聽
I sat down with Yaniv Iczkovits, author of 鈥淭he Slaughterman鈥檚 Daughter,鈥� an exuberant, picaresque tale of a daring 19th-century heroine, Fanny, and the colorful cast of characters she meets along her journey.
鈥淭he Postcard鈥� is about ordinary people, Jews, who were forced to move from place to place, but never managed to outrun the antisemitism that ultimately led to their demise.聽
鈥淩omantic Comedy鈥� is not a deep novel, and, despite its feminist-rage premise, it鈥檚 unlikely to change the state of gender roles and expectations going forward. In any case, for lovers of the romance genre, it鈥檚 a delightful read.
Walter Rosenberg鈥檚 unique overview of Auschwitz, his long period in the camp, and status and assortment of duties made him a key witness.
