Imagining the Holocaust by David Stern Throughout every facet of contemporary culture the Holocaust-the systematic murder of six million European Jews under Hitler-has become the particular…
Journey to the Trenches, by Joseph Cohen by David Stern This biography of Isaac Rosenwberg comes in the midst of a sudden revival of interest in the young English poet…
Translating the Ancients by David Stern IN A letter to Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig once remarked, "Only one who is profoundly convinced
Pictures from a Brewery, by Asher Barash; The Agunah, by Chaim Grade by David Stern The Eastern European Jewish town, or shtetl, which survives today only as a vestige of the imagination, was the locale…
Elsewhere, Perhaps, by Amos Oz by David Stern Amos Oz has emerged in recent years as the best known of the younger Israeli novelists and a leading spokesman…
Reflections on a Teapot, by Ronald Sanders; My Last Two Thousand Years, by Herbert Gold by David Stern Although both these works pose as straightforward autobiographical memoirs, each is actually a document of coming-to-Jewishness, an attempt to define…
Somewhere Else, by Robert Kotlowitz by David Stern Robert Kotlowitz's first novel tells a story which in its every aspect is commonplace.
My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok by David Stern The protagonists of Chaim Potok's novels--"The Chosen," "The Promise," and now "My Name is Asher Lev"--follow a common career; in…
