The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History

by Tony Kushner

Genres: History

344 pages, Hardcover

Published May 20, 2025

About the author

Tony Kushner is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is also co-author, along with Eric Roth, of the screenplay of the 2005 film Munich, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and earned Kushner (along with Roth) an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Reviews

[Emily Posthumus · Rating 3 out of 5]

I expected the book to go more into the details of the crime, but the bulk of the book focuses on the figure of the Jewish Pedlar through history, which was really interesting. The scope is really wide, which was a bit of a flaw - it gets a bit off topic and lost at points.