Books
The Sami Rohr Prize goes to book on the fate of Kafka’s papers
Benjamin Balint, author of “Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy,” won the $100,000 prize.
In ‘Little Eyes,’ a human gaze more frightening than the digital
“Little Eyes” suggests we love each other best when we erect enough barriers between ourselves and the human frailties of others.
Three things Alice Walker gets dead wrong about anti-Semitism
It’s mistaken for Walker to think outrage at her endorsing a book that claims Jews egged Hitler into the Holocaust is about her opposition to Israel.
The suicide epidemic of World War II
In Demmin, a town of just 15,000, as many as 1,000 people took their own lives.
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Double Chocolate Cheesecake Truffles for Exhausted Working Moms. Make someone else do the dishes.
When Native Americans were the lost tribes of Israel
The lost tribes and indigenous Americans made a convenient couple: a history without real people for real people without a history.
In a masterful novel of fascism, harrowing lessons for today
Walter Kempowski’s “Marrow and Bone” offers echoes of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell.
Q&A: The 800-page book about cruelty that smells like bubblegum
“What I was thinking a lot about with this book was cruelty.”
Our second ‘Bread Givers’ book club discussion: Fighting for independence
Welcome to the second meeting of the Forward’s book club!
For lifelong scholar Carl Rheins, nothing Jewish was alien
For lifelong scholar Carl Rheins, nothing Jewish was alien
Carl Rheins, former executive director of YIVO and co-author of the “Jewish Almanac,” will be remembered for his service to Jewish history.
The unbearable emptiness of being Woody Allen
Woody Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing” is a deceitful book, one that asserts honesty while evading truth.
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