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Mer­rill Leffler

Mer­rill Lef­fler has pub­lished three col­lec­tions of poet­ry, most recent­ly Mark the Music. A physi­cist by train­ing, he worked in the NASA sound­ing rock­et pro­gram, taught Eng­lish at the U. S. Naval Acad­e­my, and was senior sci­ence writer at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land Sea Grant Pro­gram, focus­ing on Chesa­peake Bay research.
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Fic­tion
Cain v. Abel: A Jew­ish Court­room Drama
Dan Orn­stein
Poet­ry
Once and for All: The Best of Del­more Schwartz
Craig Morgan Teicher, ed.; John Ashbery, into.
Non­fic­tion
Because of Eva: A Jew­ish Genealog­i­cal Journey
Susan J. Gordon
Non­fic­tion
A Land Twice Promised
Noa Baum
Non­fic­tion
The Salome Ensemble
Alan Robert Ginsberg
Poet­ry
Toward Babel: Poems and a Memoir
Ilana Shmueli; Susan H. Gillespie, trans.
Non­fic­tion
Par­adise Found: An Inter­view of Nor­man Manea with Hannes Stein
Norman Manea with Hannes Stein
Non­fic­tion
In the Land of Oz
Howard Jacob­son
Poet­ry
Hav­oc: New and Select­ed Poems
Linda Stern Zisquit
Non­fic­tion
The Sto­ry of the Jews: Find­ing the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
Simon Schama
Non­fic­tion
Amidst the Shad­ows of Trees: A Holo­caust Child’s Sur­vival in the Partisans
Miriam M. Brysk; Michael Barenbaum, intro.
Non­fic­tion
Mai­monides: Life and Thought
Moshe Halbertal
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The Ital­ian­ist: An Inter­view with Ann Gold­stein on Trans­lat­ing Pri­mo Lev­i’s Work

Mer­rill Leffler
July 29, 2019

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