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Literary IssuesBooks
Give My Regards To Second Avenue
Stefan Kanfer’s “Stardust Lost” captures the heyday of New York’s Yiddish theater.
Sandee Brawarsky
Jewish Week Book Critic
The Cafe Royal was the Sardi’s of Second Avenue, where Yiddish showpeople hung out and gossiped and favored their tea in a glass. Well-known actors in flamboyant dress enjoyed making their entrances; others would pay the waiters to summon them to the telephone, so their names would be called out. ...
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Anonymous In Jerusalem
A beautiful woman’s unclaimed body triggers fierce feelings in A.B. Yehoshua’s latest novel.
Sandee Brawarsky
Jewish Week Book Critic
The only person with a name in A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, “A Woman in Jerusalem” (Harcourt), Yulia Ragayev, is killed in a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem market before the book opens.
But although she has a name, little is ...
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Chasing Bad Guys
Haggai Carmon’s thrillers offer suspense and international intrigue — and they’re all based on real life.
Sandee Brawarsky
Jewish Week Book Critic
Jet lag launched Haggai Carmon into his career as an author. The international lawyer found himself in a small, unheated hotel room in a remote country he won’t identify. He was on U.S. government assignment collecting intelligence on a violent ...
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Shirtwaist Fire Revisited
A new novel based on an historical tragedy is also about storytelling, memory and perception.
Sandee Brawarsky
Jewish Week Book Critic
Nobody shops for shirtwaists anymore. Even those who favor women’s tailored blouses are unlikely to know their traditional name. The word shirtwaist still recalls the worst factory fire in the history of New York City, on March 11, 1911, at ...
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Her Mother’s Keeper
Denise Epstein discovered a novel written by her late mother, French writer and Holocaust victim Irene Nemirovsky; ‘Suite Francaise’ is now enjoying global success.
Sandee Brawarsky
Jewish Week Book Critic
Few daughters get to give life to their mothers, but Denise Epstein has indeed done so. More than 60 years after her late mother Irene Nemirovsky wrote her novel “Suite Francaise,” the book has been published and has quickly become ...
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