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Spring 5770/2010 Vol. 28, Number 1
FEATURES
4 National Jewish Book Awards
22 Hear, O Israel...
Maron L. Waxman
AUTHOR/BOOK PROFILES
30 Children in Flight
Marcia Weiss Posner
36 Figures Lie, Liars Figure
Noel N. Kriftcher
38 The Psycho-Resilient Jewish Soul
Audrey Freshman
46 Jewish South Africa in Fiction
Lauren Kramer
Malvina D. Engelberg
52 In the Grasp of the Shoah: Tales of Travail
and Its Aftermath
Marcia Weiss Posner
54 “Curb” Couple Memoirs
Jaclyn Trop
REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
26 AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES
26 The Baseball Talmud: A Definitive Position-By-
Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players
Howard Megdal
Reviewed by Maron L. Waxman
26 We Remember with Reverence and
Love: American Jews and the Myth of
Silence After the Holocaust, 1945–1962
Hasia R. Diner
Reviewed by Michael N. Dobkowski
28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
28 The 188 th Crybaby Brigade
Joel Chasnoff
Reviewed by Jessica B. Horwitz
31 Curriculum Vitae
Yoel Hoffmann; Peter Cole, trans.
Reviewed by Bob Goldfarb
37 BIOGRAPHY
37 Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet
Seth Rogovoy
Reviewed by David Cohen
37 CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE
37 The Art of Giving: Where the Soul
Meets a Business Plan
Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey
Solomon; James Wolfensohn, fwd.
Reviewed by Stephen G. Donshik
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42 Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion
and Media in America
Jeffrey Shandler
Reviewed by Jeff Bogursky
44 Why The Dreyfus Affair Matters
Louis Begley
Reviewed by Bob Goldfarb
40 COOKBOOKS
41 Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes
Laura Frankel
Reviewed by Danièle Gorlin Lassner
44 EDUCATION AND JEWISH IDENTITY
44 Sowing the Seeds of Character
Judd Kruger Levingston
Reviewed by Jeffrey Schein
45 FICTION
45 36 Arguments for the Existence of God:
A Work of Fiction
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Reviewed by Margaret Teich
51 HISTORY
51 Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural
History of the Great Depression
Morris Dickstein
Reviewed by Bill Brennan
53 HOLOCAUST STUDIES
54 The Death of the Shtetl
Yehuda Bauer
Reviewed by Carl J. Rheins
55 HUMOR
55 I Drink for a Reason
David Cross
Reviewed by Joshua Daniel Edwin
55 ISRAEL STUDIES
56 Lone Soldiers: Israel’s Defenders
From Around the World
Herb Keinon
Reviewed by Gil Ehrenkranz
56 Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s
Economic Miracle
Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Reviewed by Peter L. Rothholz
57 MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT
AND EXPERIENCE
57 The Seder Night: An Exalted Evening:
The Passover Haggadah With a
Commentary Based on the Teachings
of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik;
Rabbi Menachem Genack, ed.
Reviewed by Wallace Greene
58 POETRY
58 Beads for the Messiah’s Bride: Poems
on Leviticus
Yakov Azriel
Reviewed by Deborah Schoeneman
59 These Mountains: Selected Poems
of Rivka Miriam
Rivka Miriam; Linda Stern Zisquit, trans.
Reviewed by Hara E. Person
59 VISUAL ARTS
59 The Book of Genesis
Robert Crumb; Robert Alter, trans.
Reviewed by Elliot Fox
60 Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art
and Design for Jewish Life
Daniel Belasco; Contributors:
Arnold M. Eisen, Julie Lasky,
Tamar Rubin, Danya Ruttenberg
Reveiwed by Arlene B. Soifer
61 WOMEN’S STUDIES
61 Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next
Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
Ayala Fader
Reviewed by Shelomo Alfassa
62 CHILDREN’S
DEPARTMENTS
2 Editor’s Note
24 JBW Book Club Recommendations
25 Emerging Voices: David Sax
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
62 Children’s
67 Barbara Bietz Chats with
Zachary Shapiro
69 Books of Note
75 Now in Paperback
76 Contributors
79 Index
CORRECTION: Jewish Book World regrets the following errors in the Winter, 2009 issue:
The reviewer of the Doll Shop Downstairs (Yona Zeldis McDonough) is Naomi Morse.
The correct subtitle for Business Mensch is Timeless Wisdom for Today’s Entrepreneur.
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