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Bob Goldfarb Bob Goldfarb is president of Jewish Creativity International. Reviews Articles Nonfiction Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War Ian Buruma Nonfiction The Love of God Jon D. Levenson Nonfiction There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction Saul Bellow; Benjamin Taylor, ed. Fiction Saul Bellow: Novels 1984 – 2000 Saul Bellow; James Wood, ed. Nonfiction The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915 – 1964 Zachary Leader Fiction J: A Novel Howard Jacobson Fiction The Hilltop: A Novel Assaf Gavron; Steven Cohen, trans. Nonfiction A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd Nonfiction Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance Martin Goldsmith Fiction Fields of Exile Nora Gold Fiction The Loves of Judith: A Novel Meir Shalev; Barbara Harshav, trans. Fiction Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Fiction The Lawgiver Herman Wouk Fiction Zoo Time: A Novel Howard Jacobson Fiction Four New Messages Joshua Cohen Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 4 Next page ›› Interview “Crunchy Chords”: A Conversation with Ricky Ian Gordon Bob Goldfarb July 15, 2024 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 Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Nonfiction There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction Saul Bellow; Benjamin Taylor, ed.
Nonfiction A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd
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
