(REVIEWER: Angela Miller-Rothbart, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) Gita Gordon’s sweeping saga Full Circle will transport the reader back in time, into the shadow of memory and the familiarity of the homes of our grandparents. Under Gordon’s pen the legacy of stories which have been
(Reviewer: Leonard Suransky, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) As someone who lived through the Johannesburg of the 1950s and 60s, I recommend Jack Hoffmann’s novel, He Does Not Die a Death of Shame, to anyone from that era. Why? The author has
(Reviewer: Tamar Saks, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) The well-known South African journalist and Zionist activist Michael Belling has written a novel which is, according to the blurb, “both a tender love story and a story of Israel in its early years”.
(Reviewer: Michael Belling, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) Antisemitism isn’t funny, but The Finkler Question is – it is comedy in the classic sense where the jester, with deadly serious intent, uses humor to put important matters in perspective, tells jokes to drive
(Author: Marcia Leveson, Vol. 68, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2013) In terms of South African Jewish writing, this is a book I have been waiting for. Although Anthony Schneider immigrated to America at an early age and is therefore not strictly a South African author,
