Laura Yares’s "Jewish Sunday Schools" is a complex survey of Jewish immigrant religious education that notes its influence on society. The book details the concerns of early nineteenth-century Jewish American communities regarding the... Read More
In 1971, the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Jennifer Frost’s thorough, valuable "Let Us Vote!" celebrates the amendment’s semicentennial by chronicling the long struggle to pass... Read More
The French are acknowledged to have the world’s most elegant, sophisticated cuisine, but how did this reputation and style of cooking evolve? In "Savoir-Faire", Maryann Tebben teases out centuries of culinary history and its role in... Read More
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s "Between Two Millstones, Book 2" is a captivating record of his life of exile in the United States. In 1976, Solzhenitsyn, his wife, Alya, and their three sons settled in Cavendish, Vermont, after being exiled... Read More
That Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is an important chronicler of Soviet era Russia is hardly in dispute; his novels are among the most memorable depictions of that era. That’s certainly true of The Red Wheel, his massive, multi-volume account... Read More
In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is releasing the first English translation of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic work, "March 1917", Node... Read More
Kubic’s conflict stories are eye-opening gems, full of intrigue and insight. Ferreting out the truth is both an obligation and a risky endeavor for journalists in unstable countries, and not everyone is cut out for the work. In his... Read More
The Complete Callaghan Tetralogy is a well-conceived tale for those who enjoy smart, complex, global intrigue. A London businessman, brutally tortured by the Russian mafia when he is mistaken for his father, seeks revenge and personal... Read More