An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah
By Farah Pahlavi Patricia Clancy (Translator)
Miramax Books 464pp., $24.95

AMIR TAHERI: Fairy tale in reverse
EXCERPT: An Enduring Love

Wedding Song:
Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
By Farideh Goldin
University Press of New England 216pp., $24.95

RUTH EGLASH: Putting Persia in the past

Breakdown and Bereavement
By Yosef Haim Brenner Translated with introduction by Hillel Halkin
Toby Press 266 pp., $14.95.

CALEV BEN-DAVID: The pioneering spirit

JESSICA STEINBERG: Speaking for myself
This past month, several world-renowned memoirists convened at Bar-Ilan University to discuss the art of writing about oneself... however reluctantly.

MIRIAM ABRAMOWITZ SHAVIV: A little literature with your latte?
A decade of good food and great books at a Jerusalem literary landmark

The Mission of the Human Resource Man
By Abraham B. Yehoshua
The New Library (HaKibbutz HaMeuchad) (in Hebrew) 238pp., NIS 85

ELI SHAI: Return of the secular Israeli pilgrim
AN INTERVIEW WITH A.B. YEHOSHUA

Short Story: Linden Tree
By Carolyn Slutsky
No one would deny it is a city of ghosts. Nobody could.

CAROLYN SLUTSKY: Linden Tree

The Outside World By Tova Mirvis
Knopf 303pp. $24

LISA FRYDMAN: Life inside a fishbowl

Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World
By Christine Benvenuto
St. Martin's Press 274pp., $23.95

NICKY BLACKBURN: Leap of Faith

Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage
By Sylvia Barack Fishman
Brandeis University Press 198pp., $24.95

MIRIAM SHAVIV: Blending into extinction

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs 1948-2003
By Itamar Rabinovitch (Updated & Revised)
Princeton University Press 344pp., $16.95

ERIK SCHECHTER: How it all came undone

Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel
By Yoram Peri
Stanford University Press 319pp., $24.95

ANSHEL PFEFFER: Bibi, Antichrist

Threshold by Shirley Kaufman
Copper Canyon Press 139 pp. $12.00

IDRA NOVEY: Words to bear the weight

GOD By Alexander Waugh
Thomas Dunne Books 342pp., $24.95

YEHUDA KURTZER: Have a little faith?

Modigliani: Beyond the Myth Edited by Mason Klein
Yale University Press 241pp., $34.95

MEIR RONNEN: Modigliani, alive and well

Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir
By Susan Shapiro
Delacorte Press 230pp., $21.95

RONIT PINTO: The serial monogamist

Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical
By Andrea Most
Harvard University Press 253 pp. $29.95

TOM TUGEND: The brains behind Broadway