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    Lois Lev­een

    Lois Lev­een is the author of Juli­et’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bows­er: A Nov­el.

    2014

    Romeo and Jew­li­et, or a Jew­ish Nov­el­ist Walks into a Shake­speare Play

    Shake­speare, Shmake­speare: Jews and the Bard

    2012

    Fun­ny, You Don’t Book Jewish

    Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction
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    Essay

    A His­tor­i­cal Look at Jews in the Work of Shakespeare

    Lois Lev­een is the author of Juli­et’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bows­er. She has been blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…
    Lois Lev­een
    October 1, 2014
    Essay

    Romeo and Jew­li­et, or a Jew­ish Nov­el­ist Walks into a Shake­speare Play

    Lois Lev­een is the author of Juli­et’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bows­er. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.To be, or…
    Lois Lev­een
    September 29, 2014
    Essay

    Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction

    Ear­li­er this week, Lois Lev­een wrote about what makes a book Jew­ish. She has been blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
    Lois Lev­een
    June 28, 2012
    Essay

    Fun­ny, You Don’t Book Jewish

    Lois Lev­een​’s newest nov­el, The Secrets of Mary Bows­er, is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.There’s…
    Lois Lev­een
    June 26, 2012
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    Juli­et’s Nurse: A Novel
    Lois Lev­een

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