Category: NON FICTION

July 1, 2010

No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos *** (of 4)

Markopolos is the guy who figured out Bernard Madoff. He did it by calculating Madoff’s the impossibility of his returns: nearly identical positive payoffs for...

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June 29, 2010

Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb **** (of 4)

Adolph Eichmann, architect, planner, and executor of “The Final Solution” for the Jews escaped to Argentina at the end of the World War II. It...

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June 22, 2010

Prisoners by Jeffrey Goldberg *** (of 4)

Goldberg describes himself as a Zionist, former peace-nik, with an insatiable wish to meet people who want to kill him because he is Jewish. As...

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June 22, 2010

Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky *** (of 4)

As a Hampshire College student in the late 70s, Lansky decides to learn Yiddish. At that time Yiddish, having barely survived the murderous rampage of...

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June 22, 2010

O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre **** (of 4)

Very engaging history of Israel war for independence. I read it in 2001 before I was keeping this book blog.

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June 21, 2010

The Lost: A search for six of six million, by Daniel Mendelsohn **** (of 4)

Nearly sixty years after the author’s great-uncle, wife, and four daughters disappeared in the Holocaust, the author searches for their memories. Beginning with his grandfather’s...

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June 21, 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 21, 2010

Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander **** (of 4)

Auslander carries all of Woody Allen’s neuroses into the 21st Century and does it with panache. This autobiography is a therapeutic disgorging of growing up...

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June 21, 2010

Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross ** (of 4)

When the handful of Poland’s original population of 3 million Jews returned from Siberia, concentration camps, or from hiding to reclaim their property and their...

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June 21, 2010

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All its Moods by Michael Wex **** (of 4)

Wex is three-fourths scholar and one quarter stand-up comic. In departure from say Rosten’s books on Yiddish, which list words, definitions, and accompanying anecdotes, Wex...

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