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Howard Schwartz

Howard Schwartz’s most recent col­lec­tion of Jew­ish folk­tales is Leaves from the Gar­den of Eden: One Hun­dred Clas­sic Jew­ish Tales. His book, Tree of Souls: The Mythol­o­gy of Judaism, won The Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in 2005.
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Essay

Voic­es With­in the Ark: The Mod­ern Jew­ish Poets

Voic­es With­in the Ark: The Mod­ern Jew­ish PoetsHoward Schwartz reflects on Voic­es With­in the Ark: The Mod­ern Jew­ish Poets, pub­lished in 1980. Voic­es in…
Howard Schwartz
April 28, 2016
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Inter­view: Dina Elenbogen

by Howard SchwartzJew­ish Book Coun­cil sat down with Dina Elen­bo­gen, poet and author of Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, An Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, An Israeli Sto­ry, to…
Howard Schwartz
August 19, 2015
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Recall­ing Pro­fes­sor Dov Noy: World’s Fore­most Jew­ish Folklorist

by Howard SchwartzNo one would deny that Mar­tin Buber and Ger­shom Scholem are colos­sal fig­ures in the fields of Hasidism and Kab­bal­ah. But not every­one real­izes that…
Howard Schwartz
February 25, 2014
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Inter­view: Howard Schwartz

by Grace Stans­beryHoward Schwartz, three time win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, has recent­ly pub­lished his fifth vol­ume of poet­ry, The Library of Dreams.“There…
Grace Stans­bery
March 4, 2014

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