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Bob Goldfarb Bob Goldfarb is President Emeritus of Jewish Creativity International. Reviews Articles Nonfiction The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Fiction A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias Nonfiction Major Farran’s Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State David Cesarani Nonfiction Yehuda Halevi: Poetry and Pilgrimage Joseph Yahalom; Gabriel Levin, trans. Nonfiction Yehuda Halevi Hillel Halkin Nonfiction Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary Nonfiction The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe Shmuel Feiner; Chaya Naor, trans. Nonfiction Curriculum Vitae Yoel Hoffmann; Peter Cole, trans. Nonfiction Why The Dreyfus Affair Matters Louis Begley Fiction The End of Everything David Bergelson; Joseph Sherman, trans. Nonfiction Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince Mark A. Vieira Nonfiction Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader Milt Gross: Ari Y. Kelman, ed. Nonfiction Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination Nora L. Rubel Nonfiction Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses Francis R. Nicosia and David Scrase, eds. Fiction The Mighty Walzer Howard Jacobson Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 7 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 Major Farran’s Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State David Cesarani
Nonfiction Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
Nonfiction The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe Shmuel Feiner; Chaya Naor, trans.
Nonfiction Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination Nora L. Rubel
Nonfiction Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses Francis R. Nicosia and David Scrase, eds.
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
