Zeev Chafetz, Author, Zev Chafets, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-394-58525-3
Written by a native son of ``Murder Capital, U.S.A.,'' who, like the majority of white Detroiters, high-tailed it out of town after the 1967 race riot (in Chafets's case, to Israel), this tour of ``the first major Third World city'' in America is an
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Zev Chafets, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-06-089058-2
In this provocative study, Chafets, a journalist and former Menachem Begin press secretary, explores American evangelical support for Israel. Chafets interweaves reflections on the history of American Christians' embrace of Israel with...
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Zev Chafets, Author . Bloomsbury $25 (237p) ISBN 978-1-59691-545-9
Cooperstown is a sleepy New York village with a population barely eclipsing 2,000, in a location where if you arrive by mistake, “you've been lost for forty-five minutes.” But Chafets explains why Cooperstown and the National...
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Zev Chafets, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-22166-2
A journalist must serve a stint in the mafia to collect his inheritance in this outrageous, comic send-up of mafia genre novels. (Dec.)
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Zev Chafets. Sentinel, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-591846-78-9
Chafets (Roger Ailes: Off Camera), an American-Israeli author and former columnist for the New York Daily News, provides a glowing authorized biography of Rabbi Eckstein, an Orthodox rabbi best known for his efforts to build bridges between American
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Zev Chafets, Author, Ze'ev Chafets, Author Random House (NY) $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40263-3
In an outrageous comic send-up of Mafia genre novels, William Gordon, sardonic foreign correspondent for a New York City paper, returns home to claim the inheritance left by his dead uncle, Mafia kingpin Max Grossman. Gordon, who's in love with a...
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Zev Chafets, Author, Ze'ev Chafets, Author Random House (NY) $21 (261p) ISBN 978-0-679-41456-8
The title is the first sly joke in this wacky romp in which a has-been novelist gets entangled in deception and slapstick with his agent, his publisher and the mafia. Chafets (Inherit the Mob) maintains an arch tone throughout the shaggy-dog tale of
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Zev Chafets, Author, Ze'ev Chafets, Author Warner Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-52047-8
Shi'ite terrorists and Western politicians play foul with two Detroit Pistons basketball stars and their coach in Chafets's third offbeat thriller (following The Bookmakers, 1995). A bumbling terrorist minion mistakes Pistons coach Digger Dawkins...
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Zev Chafets, Author, Ze'ev Chafets, Author Warner Books $23.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-51886-4
Even though it deals with such heavy-weight issues as the threat of nuclear war in the Middle East and Israel's meddling in an American election, this new thriller by Chafets (Inherit the Mob) has a cozy, downhome (hamische, as they say in Yiddish)...
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Ze'ev Chafets, Author, Zev Chafets, Author, Marty Asher, Editor Vintage Books USA $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73591-5
Chafets interviews Detroiters about the Motor City's decline and shows how ``Devil's Night,'' the night before Halloween, evolved from an evening of pranks into one of rampant arson. ``An enormously unsettling read and a tragically accurate picture...
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Zeev Chafets, Author, Zev Chafets, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05308-1
American Jews may be ``members of the tribe'' by virtue of their birthright, but they are also complacent, overly obsessed with the Holocaust and in danger of self-extinction through assimilation. These are some of the forthright opinions arrived at
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