“Von Arnstein represents one of the most fascinating and paradoxical eras in modern Jewish history … For an American Jewish reader, Fanny von Arnstein is fascinating above all as a cautionary tale — and a reminder of our luck at having avoided the excruciating choices that Fanny, and so many Jews like her, had to face.”
Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine
New York Magazine has published their Approval Matrix for the week of 4/19. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s novel Alexandrian Summer occupies the top (right) spot.
It is both highbrow and brilliant. Officially.
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/approval-matrix-2015-4-20/
