The Jewish State of Bureaucracy
By BEZALEL STERN
Levey’s hilarious—and sobering—memoir as the Prime Minister’s mouth.

 



Sensual Semites
By MENACHEM WECKER
A new collection of essays lets it all hang out.

 



 

Are These Germans Different?
By RACHEL SOMERSTEIN
A 21st-century take on the WWII memoir.

 



 

Refusniks Heading West
By MIMI SCHWARTZ
Maxim D. Shrayer details his intercontinental metamorphosis.

 



 

Heard That
By ROBERT BIRNBAUM
The storied life of Studs Terkel

 



 

Two Religions, One Question
By REBECCA PHILLIPS
An assessment of The Faith Between Us.

 



 

Everything Old Is New Again—and That's the Problem
By MICAH SACHS
The editor of InterfaithFamily.com sounds off on The New American Judaism.

 



 

Reading the Bible, without Apologies
By BEZALEL STERN
James Kugel's smart new Bible book.

 



 

 

 

 

More Non-Fiction Books

 

Is Yiddish Finished (and Can You Say That in Yiddish)?

 

A Steaming Pot of Literary Gumbo

 

In Dreams Begin Volumes

 

Beyond Accommodation: The Necessary Contradictions of Power