Category: Jewish History

June 18, 2010

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert *** (of 4)

A fluky book by on the of the world’s greatest Holocaust historians. Gilbert gathers dozens of newly uncovered personal histories of November 10, 1938 when...

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June 18, 2010

A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson *** (of 4)

Johnson is an anti-Semitic summofabitch. He blames the victim at times. He seems incredulous that the Jews didn’t recognize Christ as part of the Holy...

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April 29, 2010

Old Men at Midnight, by Chaim Potok *** (of 4)

Enigmatic. I went back and forth between thinking the three short stories were too simple, too typical, not completely unique recountings of Jewish suffering in...

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April 29, 2010