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Jewish Review of Books Israel’s Iron Lady 23 Jan
Deborah E. Lipstadt's biography of Golda Meir portrays a life marked by accomplishments and guilt for not doing more to save Holocaust victims. Meir, born in...
23 Jan
Jewish Review of Books George Lichtheim’s Marxmanship 11 Jan 2023
George Lichtheim, a Jewish German immigrant to Jerusalem during World War II, was a writer and journalist who gained knowledge from his weekly meetings with ...
11 Jan 2023
Jewish Review of Books Graven Images 6 Apr 2022
The book "Graven Images" explores the drawings and sketches of the famous writer Franz Kafka, which were previously overlooked and undiscovered. The book rev...
6 Apr 2022
Jewish Review of Books Between Frankfurt and Jerusalem: Scholem, Adorno, and the Fate of the Sacred 8 Sep 2021
The text discusses the correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem, two prominent Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century. Though they init...
8 Sep 2021
Jewish Review of Books And the Heart Is Forever Broken 20 Mar 2021
The article discusses a recently discovered short story by the Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, titled "Undula." The story, published in 1922 under a pseud...
20 Mar 2021
Jewish Review of Books The Witness 24 Jun 2019
H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, was a prominent yet underrecognized figure in Holocaust literature. Born in Prague, Adler's associat...
24 Jun 2019
Tablet The Trial of Kafka’s Last Heiress 21 Aug 2018
Eva Hoffe, who recently passed away at 84, was involved in a high-profile legal battle in Israel over Franz Kafka's manuscripts. The case involved a debate o...
21 Aug 2018
Jewish Review of Books The Many Dybbuks of Romain Gary 7 Jan 2018
Romain Gary, a Lithuanian Jew who considered himself a quintessential Frenchman, led a remarkable life filled with self-invention and multiple personas. From...
7 Jan 2018