Josh Lambert
By Josh Lambert
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News Desperately Lost Americans Find Themselves in Prague
The View From Stalin’s Head By Aaron Hamburger Random House Trade Paperbacks, 245 pages, $12.95. —– If recent literary fiction is any indication, Prague is giving Brooklyn a run for its money in terms of attracting young, disaffected American Jewish men. Gary Shteyngart’s “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” returns a post-Soviet Manhattanite slacker back not to…
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News Enough To Make Bugsy Siegel Blush
The Hebrew Hammer isn’t the only Jew in a frock coat and a black hat meting out justice this winter. In fact, next to the Weiss brothers, lieutenants in San Francisco’s turn-of-the-century Jewish mob, the Hammer looks like a bit of a nebbish. The brothers are the heroes of “Market Street,” the first story arc…
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News Cantankerous Old Man Discovers Soft Spot
Joseph Epstein Treats Readers to a Group of Entertaining Alte Cockers Fabulous Small Jews: Stories By Joseph Epstein Houghton Mifflin, 352 pages, $23. * * *| Jews have an age-old answer to snobbery. It’s called chutzpah. If some pretentious jerk looks down his nose at you because of the “-berg” at the end of your…
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