Michal Leibowitz

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Jewish Review of Books Tradition and Imagination 11 Jan 2023
"Tradition and Imagination" discusses Johanna Kaplan's recently reissued story collection, emphasizing her scrupulously attentive portraits of postwar Americ...
11 Jan 2023
Jewish Review of Books Godly Guardrails and Secular Assumptions 13 Jul 2022
In her book God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success, Ilana M. Horwitz argues that religious teens have an advantage in ...
13 Jul 2022
Jewish Review of Books An Indian Play in Warsaw 28 Dec 2021
"A Play for the End of the World" by Jai Chakrabarti is a novel that tells the story of a fictional survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage who travels to ru...
28 Dec 2021
Jewish Review of Books Screwball Tragedy 20 Mar 2021
"The Lost Shtetl" by Max Gross is a quick-witted novel that tells the story of Kreskol, a Jewish village in Poland that has been isolated from the outside wo...
20 Mar 2021
Jewish Review of Books Miami Vices 3 Jan 2021
In "Miami Vices" by David Hopen, the novel follows 17-year-old Ari Eden as he navigates the world of a Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Zion Hills, Flor...
3 Jan 2021
Jewish Review of Books American Gods 16 Sep 2020
In her book "Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World," journalist Tara Isabella Burton explores the rise of bespoke religious identities in contempo...
16 Sep 2020
Jewish Review of Books Double Lifers 30 Jun 2020
"Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age" by Ayala Fader explores the lives of ultra-Orthodox Jewish individuals who publicly observe Jewish law but...
30 Jun 2020
Lehrhaus Review of After Adam 4 Jun 2020
After Adam: The Books of Moses by Laurance Wieder is a genre-bending biblical saga that re-centers the personal bond between the Jewish people and their inti...
4 Jun 2020
Lehrhaus Review of After Adam 4 Jun 2020
"After Adam: The Books of Moses" by Laurance Wieder offers a unique perspective on the Jewish understanding of God. While many American Jews view God as an i...
4 Jun 2020