Reviews

Cast Out of Eden

Review in Shepherd Express:

“Cast Out of Eden is another chapter in the painful process of evaluating major historical figures, recognizing that the same people who made significant, positive contributions could also be guilty of being terribly wrong.”

I Make Envy on Your Disco

Review in The Mountains:

“I Make Envy on Your Disco‘s intimate, journal-like chronicle (recalling to mind William Boyd’s Masterful Any Human Heart) is a dazzling—and often delicious—Berlin story for our time.”

The Triumph of Life

Review in Jewish Book Council:

“Through­out his career, Green­berg has writ­ten exten­sive­ly about a host of issues, includ­ing post-Holo­caust the­ol­o­gy, the bound­aries of inter­re­li­gious dia­logue, and the cen­tral­i­ty of tikkun olam. Per­haps no oth­er book in Greenberg’s oeu­vre puts all of these ideas in one place bet­ter than The Tri­umph of Life.”

Where Are You From

Review in Another Chicago Magazine:

“It’s in his incantational fits and leaping style where Morín shines. He describes himself as a ‘tangent machine’ who goes mapless so he can ‘come around.’ The wandering devolves to his son’s inheritance, namely, their second-class standing in America. But this is strikingly cut by Morín’s talent, his associational alacrity that bridges some of the brokenness he writes well about.”

Continental Reckoning

Review in Utah Historical Quarterly:

“Drawing from a broad range of historical scholarship, in many ways Continental Reckoning represents a new benchmark study for the active settler colonization period in the American West (although it never uses the term settler colonialism). It is a treasure trove of information relayed via powerful and gripping narration.”

Ethics at the Center

Review in The Jerusalem Post:

“I was so happy to come across the spectacular book Ethics at the Center by a wonderful teacher and scholar which clearly places ethics at the center of Judaism and Jewish living.”

Review in Jewish Book Council:

“For decades, Rab­bi Elliot Dorff has been a lead­ing thinker, writer, and edu­ca­tor on Jew­ish ethics. In his lat­est work, Ethics at the Cen­ter, he show­cas­es his intel­lec­tu­al process, high­light­ing for read­ers the impor­tance of inves­ti­gat­ing eth­i­cal ques­tions through a Jew­ish lens. This is a remark­ably grace­ful text that will appeal to schol­ars and lay read­ers alike.”

Baseball

Review in NINE:

“The new book satisfies the interests of the game’s most serious historians and the general audience. The volume is a magnificent treatment of baseball, on and off the diamond, in the middle of the twentieth century. His book should rightfully be among the select group of important works on the game.”

Saying No to Hate

Review in Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle:

“Across its twelve chapters, Saying No to Hate provides a compelling framework to help readers understand the origins of contemporary antisemitism. Finkelstein lays bare a litany of anti-Jewish events and acts of violence committed in North America for hundreds of years, and, while readers with little or no background on antisemitism will undoubtedly be shocked and disturbed, his book can serve as an important educational tool to expand their knowledge of the American Jewish experience.”

Author Interviews

Ira Chinoy

Interview with the Computer History Museum

Robert Aquinas McNally

Interview on Journeys of Discovery

Interview on A Book & Its Author

Gail Shaffer Blankenau

Interview on the CochiseCounty_Travels podcast

Derek Taira

Interview in New Books Network