Jewish history Books & Reviews

A Ticking Bomber

Raymond Bonner | Sep 02, 2008
There is no simple answer to the causes of terrorism. But three books offer insight into the complexities of man and his motivation to kill. These explanations come not from academic tomes, nor expositions by the burgeoning cottage industry of ter

Flawed but Still Important

Geoffrey Kemp | Aug 27, 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt should have included more field work in their research. Yet their book still deserves to be read and discussed.

Killing to Make a Killing

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2005
Suicide terrorism may be more rational than meets the eye.

A Nation under Guilt

Martin Walker | Sep 01, 2004
Two recent histories of Nazi Germany shore up the dyke against the rising flood of "Germany as victim" revisionism.

Contact: The Politics of Migration

Jeremy Black | Sep 01, 2002
Impressive historical scholarship on migration cannot save Professor Hoerder from the miasma of current academic fashions.

A Slithy Tove

George Walden | Mar 01, 2001
Twentieth-century atrocities receive an unrewarding spin for the television age.

The Real Synthesis

John Lukacs | Dec 01, 2000
A "new history" of the Third Reich fails to understand the true nature of the regime.

The Stiletto Idealist

Adam Garfinkle | Sep 01, 2000
An exaggerated indictment of Israel's home-grown critics.

A Book for the Times, Review of Norman Davies' Europe: A History

Anthony Hartley | Sep 01, 1997
Davies has written a work worthy of the remarkable continent with which he deals; a continent that is now struggling to redefine and reunify itself, and whose cultures have been released once again to meet and mingle.

Servants, Masters, and the Art of Bantering

Richard Grenier | Mar 01, 1994
There is something indescribably wrong, we're compelled to feel, about a man completely enslaving his spirit to that of another man. The Remains of the Day, in both its literary and movie form, tells a highly didactic story. With all the respect d

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