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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

Run Boy, Run

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

by Uri Orlev

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The Zookeeper’s Wife

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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The Man from the Other Side

Monday, July 19, 2010

Uri Orlv again, this time telling a tale that was told to him by a Polish Catholic who lived next to the Warsaw Ghetto. As you can see from the cover, it is another adventure book, the sort I imagine my father reading as a boy. Again, the narrator survives and that is a satisfaction. […]

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The Island on Bird Street

Monday, July 19, 2010

Uri Orlev hid in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1939-1941. His mother was killed by the Nazis and he survived Bergen-Belsen. This is actually an adventure tale about Alex, who hides alone in the Ghetto after his father has been taken in a razzia [round-up]. After the endless tales of horror I’ve been reading, it was […]

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Undress Me In The Temple of Heaven

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Memoir of an entirely different ilk. 1986 graduate of Brown University and parochial New Yorker Susan Jane Gilman heads off with her backpack to conquer the world, starting in Communist China. This is not Eat, Pray, Love. Gilman travels with a fellow graduate and it seriously falls apart. Seemed like a lark after the last […]

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Between Dignity and Despair

Saturday, July 17, 2010

This really helped me understand how the physical annihilation of so many German Jews happened. Ms. Kaplan gives a very detailed, supported account of the 10 years in Germany before the war actually started. The social isolation and devastation of the Jews was well underway. Could a genocide happen here? We certainly have the racism […]

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