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    Cha­va Lansky

    Hail­ing from Amherst, MA, Cha­va Lan­sky is a stu­dent at Barnard Col­lege, where she stud­ies Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture and Dance, and interns for the Jew­ish Book Council.
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    A Guide To Select­ing Your Per­fect Chanukah Book

    Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyHere’s your guide to select­ing your per­fect book for Chanukah this year! Want a larg­er ver­sion? Click the image! You can find links to all of…
    Cha­va Lansky
    December 8, 2014
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Ish­mael’s Oranges

    Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyIsh­mael’s Oranges by debut nov­el­ist Claire Hajaj tells the par­al­lel sto­ries of Sal­im and Jude. Sal­im is a young Pales­tin­ian boy liv­ing in…
    Cha­va Lansky
    December 5, 2014
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    The Clas­sic Jew­ish Chil­dren’s Nov­el for Thanks­giv­ing, Mol­ly’s Pilgrim

    Post­ed by Cha­va Lansky With Thanks­giv­ing approach­ing it’s time to pull the clas­sic Jew­ish children’s nov­el Molly’s Pil­grim by Bar­bara Cohen off the shelf. This…
    Cha­va Lansky
    November 21, 2014
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Nest

    Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyNest by Esther Ehrlich tells the sto­ry of Nao­mi ​“Chirp” Oren­stein, a young girl liv­ing on Cape Cod in the 1970s. When Chip’s beloved moth­er…
    Cha­va Lansky
    July 16, 2014
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: On Bit­ter­sweet Place

    Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyThe float­ing house on the cov­er of Ron­na Wineberg’s new nov­el, On Bit­ter­wsweet Place shows the strug­gle and the lack of belong­ing that…
    Cha­va Lansky
    July 8, 2014
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Tomor­row There Will be Apricots

    Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyIn Tomor­row There Will be Apri­cots Jes­si­ca Sof­fer tells the sto­ry of two women adrift in New York City: one an almost orphan and the sec­ond…
    Cha­va Lansky
    July 1, 2014
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: The Baroness

    Post­ed by Cha­va LanskyHan­nah Roth­schild’s 2012 book The Baroness is an expose of her great-aunt Nica, the ​“rebel­lious Roth­schild,” a woman who lived out her years…
    Cha­va Lansky
    June 24, 2014
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