Review by Ha'aretz, published on May 7, 2025: ביוגרפיה חדשה שופכת אור על סיפורו של נתנאל אייזקס, ששהה באפריקה לצד בני הזולו ופיתח מערכת יחסים מפתיעה עם מנהיגם האכזר

Review by The Jewish Journal, published on May 14, 2025: "Though largely forgotten today, Nathaniel Isaacs, the unlikely Jewish British adventurer, continues to shape how we perceive Africa, a land foreign to our own, one that continues to possess the possibilities of exploration, excitement, and the lure of the unknown."

Review by The Times of Israel, published on April 26, 2025: "In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption."

Adam Rovner will be speaking at the New Stoke Newington Shul "Lunch and Learn" on June 14, 2025 in London. For non-members interested in...

Jewish Book Council Review by Brian Hillman, published on April 14, 2025: "Nathaniel Isaacs (1808−1872) can gen­er­ous­ly be described as a sailor, an entre­pre­neur, a writer, a diplo­mat, and an adven­tur­er. There is strong evi­dence that he was also a slave-trad­er, an absen­tee father, a vicious mer­ce­nary, and a gen­er­al dis­sem­bler. Adam Rover’s Isaacs’s biog­ra­phy of Isaacs, The Jew Who Would Be King, func­tions as an entry point into dis­cus­sions of colo­nial­is

Essay published in Paper Brigade Daily (online): "The pro­tag­o­nist of Saul Bellow’s Hen­der­son the Rain King (1959) bawls out a man­ic refrain that serves as his cre­do: ​“I want, I want!” Hen­der­son, a rest­less mil­lion­aire, leaves his fam­i­ly behind to trav­el to an imag­i­nary African coun­try — a mash-up of East­ern, West­ern, and South­ern Africa..."