Novel "Comedy in a Minor Key" a Gripping Wartime Story
“Comedy in a Minor Key” a dark comedy of wartime manners that is impossible not to enjoy despite the serious subject.
“Comedy in a Minor Key” a dark comedy of wartime manners that is impossible not to enjoy despite the serious subject.
I was captivated by this quirky family memoir by Meir Shalev, the acclaimed Israeli author.
“The Book of Life” by new author Stuart Nadler: unpleasant, predictable, and not really that Jewish.
Ever wanted a basic recipe for za’atar, or to know the history of kugel? “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food” might be just the book you’re looking for.
Kosher food is growing at twice the rate of non-Kosher food; what gives?
In the stream-of-consciousness novel by Israeli Eshkol Nevo, “Homesick,” its characters’ lives seems to roll downhill, as does the novel’s grip on its reader.
When the Danube Ran Red oozes red onto its book cover. But that’s nothing compared with the blood bled, and shed, between the covers of this Holocaust memoir.
See hell and back through another’s eyes. It’s a reminder about how we should be living, breathing, eating and enduring.
There is no universal way to be a Jew. It is what you and yours make of it.
I didn’t want to like Steve Stern’s new novel The Frozen Rabbi. And then I found myself laughing. Out loud. In a plane full of people at cruising altitude above the Atlantic.