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Paris and become a renowned writer, only
to fall victim to the Nazis.
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Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary
life that was the heart and soul of New
York's Lower East Side around the turn
of the 20th century in 97 Orchard
(HarperCollins) — as German, Irish,
Italians and Eastern European Jews
attempted to forge a new life.
Detroit native Daniel Okrent offers a
vivid and well-researched history of
Prohibition in Last Call: The Rise and
Fall of Prohibition (Scribner), includ-
ing how anti-Semitism contributed to
the push to ban alcohol in the U.S.
For her book Heaven: An Enduring
Fascination with the Afterlife
(Harper), Newsweek religion editor Lisa
Miller talked to priests, rabbis, Muslim
clerics, professors and more — giving
readers a sweeping historical and liter-
ary geography of heaven; she finds that
heaven — to all cultures and religions
— means hope.
MEMOIRS
With Devotion: A Memoir (Harper),
Dani Shapiro, author of the best-sell-
ing memoir Slow Motion, shares
her account of being a middle-class,
middle-aged woman in spiritual crisis
as she searches for meaning in her
everyday life.
Blending history, geography, politics
and personal memoir, Charles London
explains in Far from Zion: In Search of
a Global Jewish Community (William
Morrow) that he feels little connection
to the faith of his people — until he
goes on a yearlong quest to seek out
Jewish communities around the world.
Frequently outrageous comedian
Sarah Silverman offers a collection
of witty autobiographical essays in
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage,
Redemption and Pee (Harper), in
which she opens up about growing up
Jewish in New Hampshire, fighting a
nightly war with her bladder almost
until high-school graduation, the acci-
dental death of her infant brother, her
teenage battle with depression and
inciting a media firestorm with a bit
skewering political correctness.
In When I Stop Talking, You'll Know
I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a
Persuasive Man (Twelve Books),
we follow entertainment titan Jerry
Weintraub from his first great success
at 26 with Elvis Presley to his days
with Sinatra and his hits as a movie
producer — with his reflections on
musical greats, Hollywood figures and
politicians filling the pages. The book
was written with author Rich Cohen,
whose latest solo book, Israel Is Real:
An Obsessive Quest To Understand
the Jewish Nation and Its History
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) — from the
destruction of the Second Temple till
now — has been optioned as a major
public television documentary.
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial car-
toonist Jules Feiffer discusses memo-
rable moments from his career and
family life as he moved from cartoon-
ing to screenplays to children's books
in Backing Into Forward: A Memoir
(Nan A. Talese); his wry cartoons are
interspersed throughout the book.
In Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve), jour-
nalist/author Christopher Hitchens
tells not only many public stories, but
personal ones as well. Later in life,
he learns that his mother was Jewish,
which, if only technically, makes him
Jewish as well (he is a self-proclaimed
atheist). That takes him on a journey
to learn the story of his family, many of
whom died in the Holocaust. ❑
Sandee Brawarsky contributed
to this article.