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    Don­ald Weber

    Don­ald Weber writes about Jew­ish Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture and pop­u­lar cul­ture. He divides his time between Brook­lyn and Mohe­gan Lake, NY.

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    The Opper­manns
    Lion Feucht­wanger; James Cleugh, trans; Joshua Cohen, translation and introduction
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    Fic­tion
    Dr. B.
    Daniel Birnbaum; Deborah Bragan-Turner
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    Leav­ing East­ern Parkway
    Matthew Daub
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    Non­fic­tion
    How the Sovi­et Jew Was Made
    Sasha Senderovich
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    Lib­er­al and Illib­er­al Arts: Essays (Most­ly Jewish)
    Abraham Socher
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    Loss of Mem­o­ry Is Only Tem­po­rary: Stories
    Johan­na Kaplan
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    Here in Our Auschwitz and Oth­er Stories
    Tadeusz Borowski, Madeline G. Levine (Translator)
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    Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Very Short Introduction
    Ilan Sta­vans
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    Noth­ing the Same, Every­thing Haunt­ed: The Bal­lad of Motl the Cowboy
    Gary Barwin
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    Fic­tion
    The Pas­sen­ger
    Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Philip Boehm (translator)
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    Philip Roth: The Biography
    Blake Bai­ley
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    Prous­t­ian Uncer­tain­ties: On Read­ing and Reread­ing In Search of Lost Time
    Saul Friedlän­der
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    In the Hour of Fate and Danger
    Ferenc Andai, Marietta Morry and Lynda Muir (trans.)
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    Here We Are: My Friend­ship with Philip Roth
    Ben­jamin Taylor
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    I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holo­caust Memoir
    Esther Safran Foer

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    Interview

    ‘Philip Roth: The Biog­ra­phy’ — A Con­ver­sa­tion with Blake Bailey

    Don­ald Weber
    April 6, 2021
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    Inter­view: David Bezmozgis

    Don­ald Weber
    September 29, 2014

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