Book review: Tuvia Tenenbom's "Careful, Beauties Ahead! "

Tuvia Tenenbom's books all have the same style: Tenenbom goes around the world and uses his disarming personality to get people - often antisemites - to reveal things they would never tell anyone, or he uses faux-naivete to expose the hypocrisy of his targets. One theme that goes through his books is that he genuinely likes most ordinary people (and especially their food)...

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Book review: The Taming of the Jew, by Tuvia @Tenenbom

There is an old joke about two Jews who are about to be executed by firing squad in Czarist Russia. One tells the other that he is going to request a last cigarette, and the other says, "No! Don't make trouble!"That is how the Jews of the UK sound in Tuvia Tenenbom's latest book, The Taming of the Jew.The book repeats his style of his previous books - part Borat, part Columbo,...

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Book review: Hello, Refugees! by Tuvia Tenenbom

Did I ever tell you about my dinner with Tuvia Tenenbom? Tuvia is a bestselling author that I've reviewed twice here. He writes in a very entertaining style. I like Tuvia! I was invited to a dinner party about a month ago hosted by Phyllis Chesler in her apartment. The food was great and the guests were even more so. One of them was Tuvia, who is a lot like Phyllis in...

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Book Review: Tuvia Tenenbom's "The Lies They Tell"

As I read "The Lies They Tell," Tuvia Tenenbom's account of his visiting some 28 of the 50 United States over the course of about a year, I found myself thinking of two disparate classics of pop culture.. The first is Simon and Garfunkel's classic "America", a song about a road trip to find the real America. The other is Columbo, the character played by the late Peter...

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Book Review: "Catch the Jew"

I mentioned recently that I was reading Tuvia Tenenbom's "Catch the Jew" and that it was great. Tenenbom, who grew up Haredi in Bnei Brak and left Judaism and Israel, returned to Israel to write this book of his impressions as he met people around the country.. He goes where the wind (and his stomach) takes him, usually playing a German journalist, asking innocent and...

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