News and commentary posted in the New Releases section of Jewish Literary Review.
May 16, 2011
A new book by a mother and daughter explores a secret kept hidden during the Holocaust and its effect on survivor’s children. What’s particularly interesting is that this is a dual-memoir: both the mother and the daughter talk about their … Continue reading
May 9, 2011
David Unger returned to his native Guatemala for his new novel, The Price of Escape. The book spans three days in the life of a Samuel Berkow, a Jewish man who flees Nazi Germany in 1938 and heads to Guatamala … Continue reading
April 22, 2011
Howard Jacobson‘s The Mighty Walzer has made its way to the United States 12 years after it was originally published in Great Britain. Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize last year for his novel, The Finkler Question, and so publishers … Continue reading
January 14, 2011
In his new book, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States, author Michael Weingrad shines a light on an area of little-publicized contributions to Jewish-American culture. Weingrad explored the writings of Jewish authors who penned their … Continue reading
December 22, 2010
Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai has a new book of poetry out. The book is called War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems and it includes work written by Shabtai from 1986 through 2008. From the product description, … Continue reading
December 16, 2010
A previously unpublished collection of journals written by Alfred Kazin will come out this spring, according to Richard M. Cook, the author of the recent Kazin biography, Alfred Kazin: A Biography. Writing in The American Scholar, Cook says that since … Continue reading
December 8, 2010
I’ve been a fan of Rodger Kamenetz’s original thinking since the late 1990s when I was an intern at the Baltimore Jewish Times. He used to write these lengthy, thoughtful essays that often graced the cover of the weekly Jewish … Continue reading
November 23, 2010
Jonathan Safran Foer lifted words from Bruno Schulz and used them in his new book. No, we’re not talking plagiarism here. Foer and a group of designers literally cut out words from Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles and fashioned a … Continue reading
November 22, 2010
Cynthia Ozick has gotten a mixed bag of reviews for her latest book, Foreign Bodies. The novel is cast as a retelling of Henry James’ The Ambassadors. The plot in Ozick’s version mirrors the one in James’ novel but reverses … Continue reading
November 18, 2010
The action in Alan M. Dershowitz’s latest novel, The Trials of Zion, centers around — surprise — a courtroom battle. It’s the third novel for this prolific writer, lawyer and Harvard law professor. I actually couldn’t come up with a … Continue reading
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My name is Steven H. Pollak and I have written for the Baltimore Jewish Times, the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and American Jewish Life magazine.
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