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Book Review: Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Lévy
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Book Review: Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Man of la BookSeptember 17, 2024

Reflections on history, justice, antisemitism, as well as the double standards, demonization, and weaponizing of both int’l laws & organizations against Israel

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Book Review: Night by Ellie Wiesel
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Book Review: Night by Elie Wiesel

Man of la BookJune 20, 2023

Night by Ellie Wiesel is a memoir of the author’s experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald

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Book Review: The Island of Extraordinary Captives Simon Parkin
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Book Review: The Island of Extraordinary Captives Simon Parkin

Man of la BookOctober 20, 2022

The book tells of the camps by following Peter Fleischmann, a Jewish aspiring artist, and orphan who got to England through the kindertransport

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Audiobook Review: The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwanche
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Audiobook Review: The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwanche

Man of la BookOctober 4, 2022

The author’s conclusion is that Hamilton has been, most likely, was born and raised Jewish, dispel assumptions about Hamilton’s childhood in the Caribbean

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Book Review: The Kissing Rabbi by Andy Becker
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Book Review: The Kissing Rabbi by Andy Becker

Man of la BookAugust 18, 2021

The Kissing Rabbi: Lust, Betrayal, and a Community Turned Inside Out tells of a charismatic Orthodox rabbi, who’s schmoozing quickly becomes something more

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Book Review: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
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Book Review: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman

Man of la BookAugust 9, 2021

Rabbi David Small might be implicated in a mysterious murder, all this while his contract with the temple is up for renewal.

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Book Review: Adirondack Mendel’s Aufruf: Welcome to Chelm’s Pond by Sandor Schuman

Man of la BookMay 28, 2013

Adirondack Mendel’s Aufruf: Welcome to Chelm’s Pond by Sandor Schuman is a fictional book, taking place in upstate New York which reprises some of the old Jewish tales of the fools of Chelm.

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Thoughts on: Auschwitz by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
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Book Review: Auschwitz by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli

Man of la BookOctober 20, 2011

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli is a non-fiction memoir of a Jewish medical doctor who performed “research” on other Jews

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Book Review: The Eighth Scroll by Laurence B. Brown
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Book Review: The Eighth Scroll by Laurence B. Brown

Man of la BookMay 21, 2011

“The Eighth Scroll” by Laurence B. Brown is a fictional book which draws on the Judaism, Christianity and Islam to create a new story.

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Book Review: Devotion by Dani Shapiro
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Book Review: Devotion by Dani Shapiro

Man of la BookMarch 3, 2011

Dani Shapiro does not consider herself religious but she is not a non-believer either and yearns to deepen her understanding of her personal sense of faith.

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