An elegy for the vanished world of East End Jewry, and, more unconventionally, for that of the literary essay - because, at its best, A Double Thread is less a book than an extended essay of the kind that has ...
New Statesman
Gross's nostalgia for the Jewish East End -- the Yiddish newspapers that his father read but he could not, the synagogue that, on a recent visit, he discovers is a Sikh temple -- is interwoven with a nuanced evocati ...
New Yorker
Intelligent, humane, highly civilized... the voice we hear not only holds our attention but also wins our affection and respect
Los Angeles Times
An elegy for the vanished world of East End Jewry, and, more unconventionally, for that of the literary essay - because, at its best, A Double Thread is less a book than an extended essay of the kind that has ...
New Statesman
Gross's nostalgia for the Jewish East End -- the Yiddish newspapers that his father read but he could not, the synagogue that, on a recent visit, he discovers is a Sikh temple -- is interwoven with a nuanced evocati ...
New Yorker
Intelligent, humane, highly civilized... the voice we hear not only holds our attention but also wins our affection and respect
Los Angeles Times
An elegy for the vanished world of East End Jewry, and, more unconventionally, for that of the literary essay - because, at its best, A Double Thread is less a book than an extended essay of the kind that has ...
New Statesman
Gross's nostalgia for the Jewish East End -- the Yiddish newspapers that his father read but he could not, the synagogue that, on a recent visit, he discovers is a Sikh temple -- is interwoven with a nuanced evocati ...
New Yorker
Intelligent, humane, highly civilized... the voice we hear not only holds our attention but also wins our affection and respect