Sarah Bernstein’s recent Giller Prize-winning novel ‘Study for Obedience’ has an undeniable Jewish undercurrent
When the prestigious Booker prize announced its 2023 longlist in early August, Montreal-born author Sarah Bernstein’s novel Study for Obedience was among the selected works. The following month, it was revealed as one of the Scotiabank Giller Prize’s 2023 longlist selections. It was ultimately named the $100,000 winner of the Giller on Nov. 13—Bernstein was […]
A graphic novel that creatively and respectfully tells the story of three child survivors
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, by Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar, Nico Kamp, and Rolk Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; edited by Charlotte Schallié German philosopher Theodor Adorno famously said that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” The meaning of this statement has since been […]
Review: A new book about Maimonides challenges the idea that only Jews have a path to a spiritual life
Religious exclusivity poses a danger to the world-at-large, according to the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Within Jewry, denominational triumphalism and religious exclusivity, based on selective readings of Yehudah Halevi, Zohar and Nahmanides, threaten the unity of the Jewish people. A new book, Maimonides the Universalist: The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah by Menachem Kellner and […]
How philosophy and theology can be in dialogue together
Jonathan L. Milevsky reviews David Novak’s latest book, Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature .
Stories explore relationships between family, friends
Mordechai Ben-Dat reviews This One Because of The Dead, Laure Baudot’s first anthology of short stories.
What to tell the kids?
Norman Ravvin reviews Ellen Schwartz’s young adult novel, The Princess Dolls.
Memoir preserves the memory of Lithuanian Jews
Novelist Curt Leviant looks at The Odyssey of an Apple Thief by Moishe Rozenbaumas.
Old shoebox reveals hidden past in House of Glass
Mordechai Ben-Dat reviews Hadley Freeman’s book, House of Glass.
Novel is a deep dive into life in occupied France
Mordechai Ben-Dat reviews Alan Furst’s latest novel, Under Occupation.
Author paints different views of a city in trouble
Norman Ravvin reviews Rhea Tregebov’s novel, Rue des Rosiers.
