A review by eengland
Neil Brief: A Rabbi; No More, No Less by Judith-Rae Elias Ross

informative fast-paced

2.0

Absolutely riddled with typos and formatting flaws. A third of the citations seem to be Wikipedia or more dubious internet sources. One website is listed as www.http/[domain].com. Probably another third of the citations are self-citations (e.g., "Personal recollection" or "this was me" or "History taken from an article I wrote for a Lerner newspaper in 1988") (admittedly it felt like half the citations, but that's probably an exaggeration). Some blatant falsehoods regarding surrounding events, including the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie. Interesting read nonetheless and good to learn more about Rabbi Neil Brief who was a community cornerstone for many years. Wish there would have been more about him and his legacy, a more critical analysis of both, and more solid research and rigorous fact-checking, but alas.