A breakthrough book by Gershom Gorenberg featuring uncovered secrets from World War II reveals how easily the war could have gone the other way, and how Israelis tend to exaggerate the role played by the Palmach
Poised on the cusp between economic and climate disaster, and an amazing commercial opportunity, Gulf-based petroleum giants realize today that the golden age of oil is about to end, Dan Rabinowitz asserts in his new book. Is the era of green on the horizon?
The life of Jesus and the religion he spawned are taught in Israeli schools in a way that’s inconsistent with their influence on European culture and Western civilization, scholars lament in a new book
'I do not deny any right / Whatever it would be / Of your Jews, Israel,' wrote Tawfiq Zayyad in 1970. A new biography about his life examines his important work
In his book, the late Rafi Eitan recounts central events in his life and that of Israel. But many stories are censored, so readers don't really get to know the Mossad man who nabbed Eichmann and was behind the Pollard affair
‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ by Yaniv Iczkovits and ‘The Lost Shtetl’ by Max Gross both brim with humor, even as they suggest that life can be cruel and unforgiving to Jews and antisemites alike
Hitler’s affliction after World War I and the doctor who treated him star in a 1939 novel by Ernst Weiss, a Jewish physician and writer whose works – praised by the likes of Kafka – only recently got their due in Israel
In a touching family memoir, Nadia Ragozhina weaves together a story spanning Soviet gulags, Nazi death camps, a Swiss watch factory and Mandatory Palestine. The Russian-born Londoner recounts her own odyssey and ponders the niggling question: What if....
Hazony's take on the 'prophet of the Jewish state' sticks to myths and recycles arguments. His new book is an example of appropriating the past to suit today's political and ideological purposes
Self-help book authors seek to assist people to execute mundane tasks successfully, but in so doing lead them to erase their engagement with the world as it is
Journalist-author Roy Isacowitz lost his father, a prominent anti-apartheid activist, when he was 10. More than 50 years later he went back to South Africa to ‘discover’ him
A long-forgotten 19th-century book, by the man who gave his name to my street, described life in the Holy Land in 2040. A journey in Lewinsky's wake
A new book by Jacob Lassner traces the links between today’s situation in the Arab states and the region's cultural and religious legacies. In short, one must hold up the mirror of history to the contemporary Middle East
‘All My Mother’s Lovers,’ the debut book of queer, Israeli-American left-wing author Ilana Masad was met with critical praise. She hopes that Biden's win will change the way the country treats minorities
In his novel ‘The Memory Monster,’ Yishai Sarid imagines a Holocaust historian becoming dangerously immersed in his work. In an interview marking the book’s publication in English, the writer explains why it’s important to ask provocative questions about Shoah education
A powerful, internal musicality informed the verse of the great rebellious Hebrew poet who passed away last week, allowing many of his works to be put to music, thus lending them new life
Idealistic and greedy, enlightened and a racist, a lover of humanity and an egoist – Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Multatuli, produced one of the most audacious pieces of anti-colonialist writing ever written
In a book written at Amos Oz’s request, Nurith Gertz interweaves his biography with the story of their friendship, and reveals the feelings of trauma and remorse that plagued him
Helen Fremont was in her 30s when she learned the truth about her parents. She paid a heavy price for revealing it to the world
Viktor Orban has hosted him, one of his books is de rigueur in the Trump White House. How Jerusalem-based Yoram Hazony, an archconservative theoretician, became the house intellectual of the world’s nationalistic circles