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Last update - 11:48 04/05/2008 Books Tags: Haaretz, books Murder, mystery and malaise Sending Omar Yussef, his teacher-sleuth, into Gaza, Matt Rees, in his second novel, offers up not only a compelling detective yarn, but also a searing commentary on Palestinian elites that betray the interests of their people By Ina Friedman A city that was and is no longer Is there another small city in the world that has inspired so many books and articles? What is about Czernowitz that continues to captivate so many, long after it ceased to be a center of Jewish-German culture? By Aharon Appelfeld The book of Dahlia In this comic novel about a young woman who learns she has a fatal disease, the author charts the course of her character's treatments and also goes back in time to tell us the story of her life. By Ellen Litman Maybe they just like the beat Jared Cohen, a Swahili-speaking American Jewish Wunderkind, spent part of his time as a Rhodes scholar traveling through the Muslim Middle East. Was he right to let it fill him with hope? By Bari Weiss 'I was Hitler's doctor' Jay Neugeboren touches on questions of honor and evil in a strange narrative built around the story of Dr. Eduard Bloch, a Jewish Austrian physician who was the Fuehrer's physician and confidant. By Gerald Sorin Down to earth Since the writing of the Bible down to the last, bloody century, humans have tried to find a place for God in their political life - or have fought the same impulse. Historian Mark Lilla tries to make sense of it all. By Yehudah Mirsky The good life is at hand Tal Ben-Shahar does not deny the existence of serious psychological disorders, but he does believe attitude has a lot to do with attaining satisfaction. The trick is to combine pleasure with meaning. By Amit Fachler With a wink and a nod How did the cool pragmatism that guided Israel through the existential chaos of 1948 succumb to a catastrophic burst of messianic excitement after the Six-Day War? According to Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, the answer lies with the state. By Evan R. Goldstein Reconstituting Rice Because they focus on how the secretary of state will try to salvage her last year in office, two new biographies could almost be used as background primers on how Condoleezza Rice might manage the peace process in that time. By Daniel Levy Romantic - but wrong Tsur Shezaf's novel imagines a Bedouin revolt in the Negev in 2009. It turns out, however, that Shezaf was not the first to imagine such a scenario, which also appears in ominous defense establishment forecasts. The big question is why. By Erez Tzfadia A conversation with Yossi Nir An expert on particle physics and coauthor of 'The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter,' offers a general introduction to the history and structure of the known universe. By David B. Green Home Libraries Haim Sabato, from Ma'aleh Adumim, a teacher, writer andf author of 'Adjusting Sights' and 'The Dawning of the Day,' talks about his collection of books, including his oldest tome, his most expensive book and his favorite writers. By Vered Lee Flying in the face of perfection In Ram vebarur (Loud and Clear), an ace Israeli pilot lives up to expectations in an eloquent memoir that offers insight into his upbringing, his career in the air and - most important - his endearing flaws. By Uri Dromi One direction home In his newest novel, the imaginative and absorbing 'A Pigeon and a Boy,' Meir Shalev toggles back and forth in time as he examines people's eternal search for a place to call their own. By Ruth Margalit Lines / Slow tongue Shira Stav is a resident of Tel Aviv and is a lecturer in literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2007, Stav was awarded the annual Teva Prize for Poetry at the Metulla Festival. Translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden Societies of misfits Here is an opportunity to see the growth of Irene Nemirovsky's talent, from the fledgling coarseness of 'David Golder' through the more fully realized 'The Courilof Affair,' which shows some of the genius of 'Suite Francaise.' By Gerald Sorin With style to burn Michael Chabon's serial-form novel offers something for the epic lover, the slavish Chabonophile and the devotee of American Jewish literature. In 'Gentlemen of the Road,' Chabon again puts his theories to the test. By Jeremy Dauber A conversation with Geraldine Brooks The author and Pulitzer Prize winner talks about her conversion to Judaism, the subjugation of women in Muslim countries, and her new historical novel about the strange saga of the Sarajevo Haggadah. By David B. Green Destroying heresy from within In his boook Gnosis moderni ve-tzionut (Modern Gnosis and Zionism), Israeli scholar Yotam Hotam describes Zionism as a modern Gnostic movement, one that adopted a paradoxical secular-messianic model. By Mor Altshuler Book of lamentations Yoav Gelber is disturbed by the transformation of history from a science to a subjective discipline dominated by ideology. His argument would be easier to accept if he could acknowledge his own ideological slant. By Tom Segev Home Libraries Psychologist and writer Amia Lieblich offers an insight into her personal library, revealing her preference for Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka, and sharing her favorite lines from Lea Goldberg's poem 'Toward Myself.' By Vered Lee Jihad and Jew-Hatred Matthias Kuentzel debunks the view that Islamic Jew-hatred was a natural reaction to Israel's independence, and claims that radical Islam is grounded in the ideas of Jerusalem's former grand mufti, an ally of Hitler. By Benjamin Weinthal Coming into the light This account by a purported former Mossad agent is filled with pride and admiration for the agency and its work, and it may be these that account for the author's lack of distance and perspective. By Reuven Miran Friendship Agi Mishol's long poem sequence about childhood in the 1950s, "Biqur Bayit" (Home Visit), appears in the latest issue of "Alpayim: A Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature. Translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden Getting it rite In their search for religious authenticity, many practitioners of Judaism have adopted the philosophy of 'Jew It Yourself,' creating new ceremonies and practices to give new meaning to their faith. By Esther Solomon Wild joy on the edge of devastation These days, it is said of many books that they 'will change' their readers, but only rarely is this the case; but this anthology by the great Russian writer Andrei Platonov does precisely that. By Ronit Matalon Small man, heroic qualities Once he decided he wanted to be a 'good writer,' Bernard Malamud concentrated on his work to the exclusion of almost everything else. A new biography reminds us just how well his efforts paid off. By Benjamin Balint Who will pay the price? Is it an accident that Jewish criminal law, which is otherwise so subtly sophisticated, has no provisions for the punishment of offenses committed by human beings against their peers? By Jacob Weinroth Treasured island Part travelogue, part reportage, part memoir, 'An Island Called Home' is a Jewish exile's account of her return to Cuba and is filled with yearning for a lost childhood and a lost world. By Carol Cook More Haaretz book reviews>>> Bookmark to del.icio.us   Security first Foreign Minister Livni tells the PA to ensure terrorists don't exploit Israel's gestures. Terrorist pride Lebanon-based guerillas Hezbollah say they're proud to appear on the U.S. terrorist list.

Read & React ANALYSIS: Is this where it all ends for Ehud Olmert? Responses: 21 Amir Oren: No need for a probe to find that Olmert is guilty of the sin of arrogance Responses: 2 Zvi Bar'el: The Egypt-backed Gaza truce resembles a car trade-in deal Responses: 3 Gideon Levy: Why not have a siren for the Naqba on Israel's Independence Day? Responses: 8 Rosner's Domain Carter is helping Hamas achieve their strategic goal Asali: on nationalist fantasies, religious zealotry, of Israelis/Palestinians Should Israel remain Jewish? (WTR) Super headache for superdelegates Talking about war with Iran is not necessarily bad More Headlines 11:23 Olmert: I'll keep doing my job despite 'vicious rumors' 08:26 ANALYSIS: Is this where it all ends for Ehud Olmert? 08:41 Laborites: Suspicions against Olmert could spell PM's exit 09:37 Rice meets with Defense Minister Barak on West Bank roadblocks 10:41 Girlfriends of fallen soldiers hold memorial of their own 11:21 Chief Rabbi to revoke ruling which invalidates thousands of conversions 08:51 Settlers vow to publicize photos of troops who razed Hebron synagogue 10:12 Gaza's only power plant briefly shuts down turbine due to fuel shortage 04:36 Kibbutznik 1948 diary longs for 'purity of that generation' 08:46 Bodies of 5 Israelis killed in Bolivian crash to arrive Sunday 09:10 Report: IDF arrested 363 Palestinians in West Bank in April 08:51 PA to deploy nearly 500 armed police around Jenin Previous Editions Select Day 02 may 01 may 30 apr 29 apr 28 apr 27 apr 25 apr 24 apr 23 apr 22 apr 21 apr 20 apr

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