The Chosen Books: What Makes a Book Jewish?
By Josh Lambert
Since you’re reading Jewish Book World, this is probably a question you’ve asked yourself, at least briefly, at one point or another. If you’re a librarian or bookstore owner, editor or reviewer, literary scholar, or book group leader, you may even have decided which books count as Jewish and which books don’t for a particular project, issue, display, or collection......…
Hunting Eichmann
By Neal Bascomb
Reviewed by Arlene B. Soifer
Neal Bascomb utilized recently declassified documents for his “nonfiction thriller” about the hunt for Adolph Eichmann. Bascomb, a non-Jew, also studied Nazi edicts and concentration camp records, operations of Israel’s Mossad, the workings of Argentina’s government, El Al’s protocols, and evidence in a Jerusalem courtroom.......…