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A review by readers_block
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood by Mark Oppenheimer
4.0
An interesting, insightful news about the aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh.
This book focuses primarily on the aftermath of the shooting, not the day itself. It tells of how a Jewish community rallied and struggled in the wake of the tragedy, focusing on a different element in each chapter.
My one qualm is that I wish the author would have done more to display different opinions here. There are very clearly many people in the community and victim's families who had different opinions about gun control, etc. The author's own opinion on things like that was evident through what he choose to discuss in depth and how he treated cases (like an outlier, or like the common belief.)
I did learn a lot about Judaism throughout this and it was written in a very interesting way.
This book focuses primarily on the aftermath of the shooting, not the day itself. It tells of how a Jewish community rallied and struggled in the wake of the tragedy, focusing on a different element in each chapter.
My one qualm is that I wish the author would have done more to display different opinions here. There are very clearly many people in the community and victim's families who had different opinions about gun control, etc. The author's own opinion on things like that was evident through what he choose to discuss in depth and how he treated cases (like an outlier, or like the common belief.)
I did learn a lot about Judaism throughout this and it was written in a very interesting way.