Quick looks at books
Jews in Medicine | The Promise and Peril of Credit Elka Weber Jews in MedicineContributions to Health and Healing through the Ages Ronald L. EisenbergUrim Publications, 2019, 464 pages A practicing physician with a...
Elka Weber
The author of two books of historical fiction for children, Weber has a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies and is working on a collection of short stories
Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto
Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw...
Quick Looks at Books
The Legacy | The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89 | Dirty Jewess | Writing on the Wall Elka Weber The Legacy Melanie PhillipsBombardier Books, 2018, 400 pages Celebrated British journalist Melanie Phillips’...
Book review | Lincoln and the Jews
Was Abraham Lincoln’s attitude to Jews just an extension of his genuine affection for all men, regardless of race or creed, or did it reflect a special regard for the people of the book? Marking...
Book Review | Pleasant are their Names
Tell me your name and I’ll tell you where you come from. The origins and significance of Jewish names is a fast developing field of research, a rare window opening onto a world long-thought left...
Book Review | The autobiography of Solomon Maimon
Solomon Maimon’s translation of his role model’s Guide for the Perplexed lies at the heart of his autobiography, attesting to his stubborn quest for knowledge above all Elka Weber The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon:The Complete...
Trying to Belong
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 Simon Schama Bodley Head, 2017 790 pages,Extraordinary Individual Simon Schama’s magisterial Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 begins with a false messiah who blusters his way into...
