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How much should we worry about the state of contemporary Judaism?

My colleague, Gull Beckerman, will join us to talk about his review of five new books that

look at the place of Jews in America today. How do you reconcile with a

childhood of trauma? K.A.C. Leimon will be here to talk about his new memoir, Heavy.

Alexander Altair will give us an update from the publishing world. Plus, we'll talk about what we

and the wider world are reading. This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Joining us now, my colleague, Gull Beckerman, who is an editor at the Book Review and the author

of the book. When they come for us, we'll be gone. The epic struggle to save Soviet Jewelry.

Gull, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. So, Gull is not here to talk about his book.

Although he may in future, but to talk about five books about contemporary Judaism, which he

reviews in a long essay on the cover of the Book Review this week, I'm going to go quickly through

the authors and titles of the books, and then we will go back and talk about them a bit individually

and altogether. So, the books are Tal Kainman's God is in the Crown of 21st century Judaism.

The new American Judaism, how Jews practice their religion today by Jack Verthimer.

Amos Oz's Deer Zellitz letters from a divided land. Steve Weismans, the chosen wars,

how Judaism became an American religion. And finally, the Jewish American paradox,

embracing choice in a changing world by Robert Manouken. All right. That's a lot of reading.

It's a lot of reading a lot of books about Jews, yes.

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