Foiglman by Aharon Megged.
Toby Press. 250 pp. $19.95

CALEV BEN-DAVID: Der Yiddishe poet
CALEV BEN-DAVID: Megged on Megged

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.
Translated from the French by Lydia Davis.
Viking. 468 pp. $27.95

SAUL ROSENBERG: The discovery of writing

Due Preparations For The Plague:
A Novel by Janette Turner Hospital.
W.W. Norton & Co. 401 pp. $24.95

ALYS YABLON: Survivor syndrome

A Faker's Dozen: Stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet.
Norton. 240 pp. $23.95

TANIA HERSHMAN: Like a shot of heroin

DAVID MARGOLIS: Short Story: Bread
The phantom logic says nowhere is safe, but you can't live like that, so each person invents a system to beat the odds.

The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It by Phyllis Chesler.
Jossey-Bass. 307 pp. $24.95

CARL SCHRAG: Too important to be left to emotion

Never Again? The Threat of the New
Anti-Semitism by Abraham H. Foxman.
HarperSanFrancisco. 305 pp. $24.95

EFRAIM ZUROFF: A book is not a sound-bite

To Study and to Teach: The Methodology of Nechama Leibowitz by Shmuel Peerless.
Urim Publications 184 pp. $18.50

ERICA BROWN: This will teach you

Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers:
An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls
by Stephanie Wellen Levine.
New York University Press. 239 pp. $26.95

ELYSE GOLDSTEIN: Nice girls

Eshkol: Biography by Yossi Goldstein.
Hebrew. Keter Publishing. 789 pp. NIS 98

AMOTZ ASA-EL: Israel's unsung hero

Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait by Midge Decter.
Regan Books. 240 pp. $24.95

MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS: The Rumsfeld mystique

Frida Kahlo: the Painter and her Work by Helga Prignitz-Poda.
Schirmer/Mosel 261 pp. €78 Available in English, German and French editions.

MEIR RONNEN: The tortured genius of Frida Kahlo

Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza.
Carroll & Graf. 485 pp. $27

ALAN ABBEY: Jews in the 'hood'

Gonna Do Great Things: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Gary Fishgall. Scribner 448 pp. $26

In Black And White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
by Wil Haygood. Alfred A. Knopf. 516 pp. $26.95

TOM TUGEND: He did it his way