In the Shadow of God* is a collection of poems reflecting a daughter’s need, first to shake off and later embrace, her parent’s experience. Rosen explores what she sees as the “silent sounds and shadows”—a legacy inherited by children of the post Holocaust era.
Book Review: The Moon Taker by Libi Astaire
The Moon Taker takes us out of the sitting room and into the lives of some of Libi Astaire’s more colorful characters. The book’s narrator is a young pickpocket known to his friends and accomplices as General Well’ngone, the right-hand man of the self-styled Earl of Gravel Lane. When a Jewish con man is murdered in their neighborhood, the Earl sees it as a personal mission to solve the mystery.
Book Review: The Disappearance of God by Richard Elliot Friedman
The Disappearance of God details the gradual decrease of the divine presence in the Biblical writings—from the unquestioned companion and teacher of the Patriarchs, to the distant but still present redeemer in Exodus, to the absent Deity of Esther. Each stage of the withdrawal of the perceived Divine presence is another stage of human development. But how is it, asks Friedman, that the numerous biblical authors, in the complete absence of any coordination between them, managed to tell the same story of gradual Divine withdrawal from human history?
Book Review: Running from Giants
Running from Giants follows young Srulik from the idyllic memories of a childhood in the countryside to a confused world ruled by giants. The story is powerfully told, leaving just enough to the imagination.
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