Writing with considerable vivacity, Kirsch (King David; Moses; The Harlot by the Side of the Road) has produced a readily accessible and often entertaining version of Jewish history. Throughout, he ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. So King David of Israel lives on in the popular imagination as the embodiment of the triumphant underdog. But the story of David ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jonathan Kirsch is a Book Critic for the Los Angeles Times with 12 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as an Author. The year with the ...

Jonathan Kirsch's The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People (Viking Compass, $24.95) seems to have been written with skeptical spiritual seekers in mind. Heavy on history ...

In November 1938, a 17-year-old Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and assassinated diplomat Ernst vom Rath in reprisal for the deportation of his family and 12,000 other Jews.

I began reading Jonathan Kirsch’s “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris” (Liveright Publishing Co., 2013) with considerable skepticism.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Jonathan Kirsch’s considerable familiarity with biblical scholar Robert ...

The question of whether religions have historically done more harm or good is one of those debates that persist well beyond their proper sophomore-year expiration date. But there is a less futile ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jonathan Kirsch is an Editor for Books in the Jewish Journal with 13 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as an Author. The year with the ...