King of the Jews

This was yet again a book I mooched along with another to make up a parcel, so I didn't know much about it and by the time I picked it up a few days ago, didn't remember what I'd discovered while reading the reviews before mooching. So I entered this without realizing its connection with the Holocau......more

I read this years ago. But its popped up in my constant appraisals of human nature and in relation to a novel I'm now reading, so. (Oh. And also, the author is the father of Theo Epstein, who was manager of the Red Sox, then the Cubs.) I found it delightful albeit gruesome. The setting is a ghetto t......more

What a book.. follow a mystical wandering Jew I C Trumpleman through History and end in the LOdz Ghetto. This is a story of the Holocaust.......more

Interesting view from the side of the ghettos- but some of it was a slog but still interesting enough to get to the end.......more

A complicated read at points, this work of fiction offers an inside look at the inner working of the ghettos and the decisions Jewish leaders were forced to make and the effects it had on their communities. While I loved the book, it is certainly not for everyone. Only the patient reader can truly e......more