Memoir

At the Heart of a Post-Holocaust Memoir, a Paean to American Jewish Success

Esther Safran Foer wants you to know she’s still here, and doing great.

Steven J. Zipperstein

Feb. 2 2021 12:01AM

Two Russian-Jewish Women of Distinction, and Their Distinctive Diaries

The women’s self-recorded experiences are utterly disparate, but both offer a potent antidote to any sentimental nostalgia for life in the age of Sholom Aleichem.

Gary Saul Morson

Feb. 25 2020 12:01AM

The Unparalleled Memoirs of a Jewish Businesswoman from the Age of Louis XIV

“Utterly different from anything published in the Jewish world until then.”

Chava Turniansky

Dec. 16 2019 12:01AM

Destiny; or, How I Found My Two “Basherts”

Ruth R. Wisse discovers her husband and her subject.

Ruth R. Wisse

Nov. 1 2018 12:01AM

Responsibility; or, My Brother and I (and Leonard Cohen) Go to Summer Camp

And come to differing conclusions about the obligations of collective living.

Ruth R. Wisse

Aug. 2 2018 12:01AM

Freedom; or, How a Family of Survivors Found Its Place in Jewish Montreal

Father brought us out of bondage, but Mother decided where we were to settle and how we were to live.

Ruth R. Wisse

June 20 2018 12:01AM