Josh Lambert, a Tablet Magazine contributing editor, is the academic director of the National Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Holiday Books

High Holiday prayerbooks of every stripe

On the Bookshelf

Of arms and men

On the Bookshelf

Burning questions on the Cold War

On the Bookshelf

Jews of Madison Avenue, Jews of Broadway

On the Bookshelf

Strangers in strange lands

On the Bookshelf

On rootlessness and family trees

On the Bookshelf

Beach reads of all stripes

On the Bookshelf

Funnymen, radicals, and a merry widow

On the Bookshelf

Gambling, speculating, and other numbers games

On the Bookshelf

Sleuths, voyeurs, and fabulists