Times Book Review: Jews, Jews, Jews

It is remarkable that so many of the items in the Times Sunday's BR section are by or about Jews.

'People of the Book' By GERALDINE BROOKS Reviewed by LISA FUGARD

The protagonist of Geraldine Brooks’s novel is a precious volume.

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'The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky'

By MARK SCROGGINS Reviewed by DAN CHIASSON
The singular life of the poet Louis Zukofsky, author of the masterly “A.”

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'Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis '

By GEORGE MAKARI Reviewed by GEORGE PROCHNIK
A historian emphasizes the mass from which psychoanalysis exploded, dismissing polarized views about its central figure, Sigmund Freud.

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'The Seventh Well'

By FRED WANDER Reviewed by JASCHA HOFFMANA German novel about the camps by a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

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'Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943'

By GÖTZ ALY Reviewed by ALANA NEWHOUSE
Digging into historical archives, Götz Aly pieces together the life of an 11-year-old victim of the Holocaust.

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'The Jew of Home Depot: And Other Stories'

By MAX APPLE Reviewed by ANN HODGMAN
Max Apple’s quirky, authentic short stories take readers to places they’ve never been.

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Essay: The Story of ‘Night’

By RACHEL DONADIO
How did a Holocaust memoir rejected by 15 publishers and largely ignored by readers go on to sell 10 million copies?