Hitler sought to annihilate Jews to prevent ecological disaster, book contends
Timothy Snyder describes Hitler as a leader who wanted to foment an ecological revolution in a global landscape with no place in it for the Jews.
View ArticleHow politics trumped a Mark Zuckerberg-funded dream for U.S. schools
Despite a $100m. gift from the Facebook founder, payoffs and patronage conspired to thwart the much-needed reforms of an inner-city school system in New Jersey, author Dale Russakoff tells Haaretz.
View ArticleIsraeli novelist draws on personal experience as parent to autistic child
After directing commercials and writing children's books, Yoram Ever Hadani has now published his first novel for adults – about a subject that is very close to home.
View ArticleEat, drink and be merry - just don't mention the Holocaust
'Summer Haven' brings together in one tome scholarship, literature, memoir and reflection about the Jewish Catskills during and after WWII.
View ArticlePrimo Levi's pertinence in today's mad, mad world
A new three-volume boxed set of all of Primo Levi’s works, most of them in new translations and some appearing in English for the first time, offers a reappraisal of the author known mainly for his...
View ArticleWhat do settler women and female suicide attackers have in common?
Israeli and Palestinian women will ‘transgress’ by suspending religious beliefs if it serves a political cause, discovers political scientist Lihi Ben Shitrit.
View Article'It’s not only the two of us lying here': What the banned Israeli novel is...
‘Borderlife,’ the book at the center of a controversy involving the Education Ministry, depicts a desperate attempt by the protagonists, a Jewish woman and an Arab man, to make love, not war. The issue...
View ArticleThe Jewish pioneer whose melancholy poetics captured the Zionist project's...
On a new biography of Israel Zarchi, a writer who lived a short, sad life and whose short stories, novels and other works were lost in the archives of Hebrew literature.
View ArticleRescued from the realm of legend: Israel's 1976 Entebbe raid revisited
Forty years on, 'Operation Thunderbolt,' an authoritative account of the rescue of 102 hostages from a hijacked plane – warts and all – has finally come to light.
View ArticleFrom protest to pulpit: One renowned rabbi's life of contradictions
Rabbi Stephen Wise created his own institutions and defied the views of major communal groups. But in his new book, A. James Rudin points out the late American Jewish leader's tragic flaws.
View ArticleHow an assimilated Jewish couple found a 'promised land' in Britain
Dutch historian Ian Buruma retraces his British-Jewish grandparents’ correspondence spanning two world wars, and hones his own self-definition.
View ArticleFraternité and enmity: How France reinforces Jewish-Muslim tensions
Ethan B. Katz’s thought-provoking new book examines relations between Jews and Muslims over the past century in France and its North African colonies.
View ArticleShylock in the era of reality TV: Retelling 'The Merchant of Venice'
Stylish prose and waspish wit inform Howard Jacobson's satirical 21st-century remake of Shakespeare's great drama, in which mutated anti-Semitism is hidden under a thin veil of intellectual sophistry....
View ArticleA Palestinian 'village' whose residents can't leave
This Arabic-language novel accurately portrays rural, Palestinian society in Israel as locked in a circle of self-pity and messianic anticipation of a miracle.
View ArticleOn Winnie-the-Pooh 92nd birthday, a reminder to take child's play seriously
Few remember that the Pooh Bear story and phenomenon began with the real teddy bear of a real little boy.
View ArticleYiddish-speaking 'superheroes' take on Stalin in Tarantino-inspired romp
Paul Goldberg deftly blends murder with mirth in his new novel 'The Yid,' while describing the adventures of a wild and crazy gang in the virulently anti-Semitic Soviet Union of the 1950s.
View ArticleThe weird and wonderful Jerusalem of the Avram Cohen mystery series
Most writers have dealt with Jerusalem as the locus of religions and wars. Very few managed to expose the irrationality and delusions that stalk its streets.
View ArticleHow anti-Semitism led Shatner and Nimoy to boldly go to Hollywood
In his new book, 'Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man' William Shatner recounts his complex relationship with 'Star Trek' costar Leonard Nimoy, a fellow offspring of Jews who fled...
View ArticleTo understand Ariel Sharon, look to his mother
David Landau's biography of Ariel Sharon is essential reading for anyone who wants to get to know the man who believed it was his destiny to save the Jewish people.
View ArticleDoes monotheism breed religious violence?
In his new book, 'Putting God Second: How to Save Religion Itself,' Rabbi Donniel Hartman argues that religion often fails to create believers who care for their fellow man.
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