Posted on January 20, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Jewish Lit day in the NY Times

Man, it was big-time Jewish lit day in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Today’s section included the following:

• A review of Geraldine Brooks’ “People of the Book

• An essay on the history of Elie Wiesel’s “Night

• A review of Fred Wander’s “The Seventh Well” (See my review of this book also.)

• A review of Max Apple’s “The Jew of Home Depot: And Other Stories

• An article about a new biography of author Louis Zukofsky

• A review by the Forward’s Alana Newhouse of Götz Aly’s “Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel

• More tangentially, MOT Sigmund Freud plays a big part in a review of a book about the history of psychoanalysis.

And I was worried about finding books to review this year. Guess I better get out to the bookstore more often.

I used to think the NY Times was so self-conscious about not being viewed as a Jewish paper. It’s nice to see this worry does not extend to the Books section.

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