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Bob Goldfarb Bob Goldfarb is president of Jewish Creativity International. Reviews Articles Nonfiction Bibi: My Story Benjamin Netanyahu Nonfiction The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe Helene Stapinski Bonnie Siegler Nonfiction Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities Emily Tamkin Nonfiction I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir Harvey Fierstein Fiction The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translator) Fiction Pollak’s Arm Hans von Trotha, Elisabeth Lauffer (Translator) Nonfiction An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen Peter Osnos Fiction Our Country Friends Gary Shteyngart Nonfiction Entebbe Declassified: The Untold First-Hand Stories of the Legendary Rescue Operation Sayeret Matkal Operators, Mitch Ginsburg (Translator) Nonfiction Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald Carole Angier Fiction The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family Joshua Cohen Nonfiction Philip Roth: A Counterlife Ira Nadel Nonfiction From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff Fiction Mother for Dinner Shalom Auslander Nonfiction Never Alone Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Interview ‘Watershed Moments’: A Conversation with Max Gross Bob Goldfarb December 14, 2020 Interview ‘Life as a Dislocating Experience’: A Conversation with David Adjmi Bob Goldfarb November 23, 2020 Interview Sontag: A Conversation with Benjamin Moser Bob Goldfarb September 23, 2019 Interview An Interview with James Loeffler Bob Goldfarb October 18, 2018 Interview Creating Coherence Out of Formlessness Bob Goldfarb June 7, 2018 Interview Interview: Ian Buruma with Bob Goldfarb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buruma tells the extraordinary story of his own grandparents: British Jews who were apart during the World Wars and stayed… Bob Goldfarb February 2, 2016 Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Fattal by Bob GoldfarbBob Goldfarb recently spoke to Joshua Fattal, who co-authored, alongside Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, the recently published book A Sliver of Light:… Bob Goldfarb July 10, 2014 Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Cohen In its review of Four New Messages the New York Times said of Joshua Cohen, “he’ll make you want to be an angel investor in his stuff. What’s a book but… Bob Goldfarb August 29, 2012 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Aharon Appelfeld and Nicole Krauss Bob Goldfarb has been blogging all week at the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. More than a generation separates novelist Nicole Krauss,… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: JSF and Amir Gutfreund Bob Goldfarb has been blogging about the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim all week. Stay tuned for his final post later today.Jonathan Safran… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Zeruya Shalev and Siri Hustvedt In his last posts, Bob Goldfarb, a regular reviewer for Jewish Book World, wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing” and… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010 Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Paul Auster and David Grossman In his previous posts on the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Bob Goldfarb wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,”… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010 Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Nonfiction The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe Helene Stapinski Bonnie Siegler
Nonfiction Entebbe Declassified: The Untold First-Hand Stories of the Legendary Rescue Operation Sayeret Matkal Operators, Mitch Ginsburg (Translator)
Fiction The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family Joshua Cohen
Nonfiction From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff
Interview ‘Life as a Dislocating Experience’: A Conversation with David Adjmi Bob Goldfarb November 23, 2020
Interview Interview: Ian Buruma with Bob Goldfarb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buruma tells the extraordinary story of his own grandparents: British Jews who were apart during the World Wars and stayed… Bob Goldfarb February 2, 2016
Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Fattal by Bob GoldfarbBob Goldfarb recently spoke to Joshua Fattal, who co-authored, alongside Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, the recently published book A Sliver of Light:… Bob Goldfarb July 10, 2014
Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Cohen In its review of Four New Messages the New York Times said of Joshua Cohen, “he’ll make you want to be an angel investor in his stuff. What’s a book but… Bob Goldfarb August 29, 2012
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Aharon Appelfeld and Nicole Krauss Bob Goldfarb has been blogging all week at the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. More than a generation separates novelist Nicole Krauss,… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: JSF and Amir Gutfreund Bob Goldfarb has been blogging about the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim all week. Stay tuned for his final post later today.Jonathan Safran… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Zeruya Shalev and Siri Hustvedt In his last posts, Bob Goldfarb, a regular reviewer for Jewish Book World, wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing” and… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Paul Auster and David Grossman In his previous posts on the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Bob Goldfarb wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,”… Bob Goldfarb May 6, 2010
