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Hillel Halkin

Book Appreciation: A.B. Yehoshua’s “Mr. Mani” — A Great Work of Fiction

A.B. Yehoshua was anything but a provincial Israeli writer. He was literary giant whose imaginative gift was so striking and diverse that you never knew what he would do next.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin, Mr Mani, Roberta Silman, The Extra, The Retrospective, The Tunnel

Book Review: An Evocative Biography of Zionist Agitator and Writer Vladmir Jabotinsky

There’s room to wonder if Vladmir Jabotinsky would have accepted Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu as his legitimate Zionist heirs.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvey Blume, Hillel Halkin, Israel, Jabotinsky: A Life, Jewish Lives, Jewish nationalism, Judaism, Revisionism, Short Fuse, Vladmir Jabotinsky, Yale-University-Press, Zionism

Book Review: The “Jewish Lives” Series — Biography Simplified But Illuminating

YUP’s uneven Jewish Lives offers a series of short, accessible biographies that could become a significant literary mural, showcasing the scope of Jewish culture.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adam Phillips, Becoming Freud, Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, Culture Vulture, Dorothy Gallagher, Hillel Halkin, Jewish Lives, Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life, Rachel Cohen, Robert Gottlieb, Sarah Bernhardt, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Yale-University-Press

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