Ed Koch

Israel on the Hudson Jenna Weissman Joselit, Jewish Review of Books. Spanning three volumes, City of Promises offers a thorough history of Jewish New York.  But “where, oh where, is the expansiveness and, yes, the sheer incommensurability of it all?”

The Redemptive Chutzpah of Ed Koch Thane Rosenbaum, Jewish Week. As New York City’s mayor from 1978 to 1989, Ed Koch, who died last week, is credited with having saved the city from bankruptcy—in a "brashly Jewish way."

The Shtetl Remedy Elizabeth Alpern, The Jew and the Carrot. Now that it’s cold season, you could place your hopes in chicken soup and a flu shot.  Or you could try cupping, blood-letting, eating garlic cloves, drinking milk-and-alcohol mixtures . . . (2010)