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    Eleanor Ehrenkranz

    Eleanor Ehrenkranz received her Ph.D. from NYU and has taught at Stern Col­lege, NYU, Mer­cy Col­lege, and at Pace Uni­ver­si­ty. She has lec­tured wide­ly on Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture and recent­ly pub­lished anthol­o­gy of Jew­ish poet­ry, Explain­ing Life: The Wis­dom of Mod­ern Jew­ish Poet­ry, 1960 – 2010.
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    Poet­ry
    Sum
    Yonat Hafftka
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    Jew­ish Text
    Hours of Devo­tion: Fan­ny Neu­da’s Book of Prayers for Jew­ish Women
    Dinah Berland, ed.; M. Moritz Mayer, trans.
    Cover of The German Bride
    Fic­tion
    The Ger­man Bride
    Joanna Hershon
    Cover of Stranger's Notebook: Poems
    Poet­ry
    Stranger’s Note­book: Poems
    Nomi Stone
    Cover of Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths
    Poet­ry
    Light Low­er­ing in Dimin­ished Sevenths
    Judy Kronenfeld
    Cover of Night, Morning
    Poet­ry
    Night, Morn­ing
    Hamutal Bar-Yosef; Rachel Tzvia Back, trans.
    Cover of Things on Which I've Stumbled
    Poet­ry
    Things on Which I’ve Stumbled
    Peter Cole
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    Fic­tion
    Once
    Rebec­ca Rosenblum
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    Fic­tion
    Broad­way Baby
    Alan Shapiro
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    Non­fic­tion
    Yehu­da Amichai: The Mak­ing of Israel’s Nation­al Poet
    Nili Scharf Gold
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    Fic­tion
    The Muse of Ocean Park­way: And Oth­er Stories
    Jacob Lampart
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    Fic­tion
    The Sav­ior
    Eugene Drucker
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    George Stein­er at the New Yorker
    George Steiner; Robert Boyers, ed.
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    Sweet Dates in Basra
    Jessica Jiji
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    Bon­ho­ef­fer: Pas­tor, Mar­tyr, Prophet, Spy
    Eric Metaxas

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