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“I’ve heard of Jews with horns, but wings? An innovation!”

by Bar­bara Klein MossEar­li­er this week, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil inter­viewed Bar­bara Klein Moss, the author of The Lan­guage of Par­adise: A Nov­el about the…
Bar­bara Klein Moss
July 31, 2015
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Dis­cov­er­ing the Pinch: Part II; or, Ani­mat­ing a Lit­er­ary Golem

Ear­li­er this week, Steve Stern offered his rec­ol­lec­tions of the Mem­phis com­mu­ni­ty in which he grew up and the Jew­ish myth­i­cal lore occu­py­ing it. His most recent…
Steve Stern
July 29, 2015
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Dis­cov­er­ing the Pinch: Part I

Steve Stern, win­ner of the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, is the author of sev­er­al pre­vi­ous nov­els and sto­ry col­lec­tions, includ­ing The Book of Mis­chief and The Frozen…
Steve Stern
July 27, 2015
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Of Autis­tic and Crazy

Judy Brown wrote the con­tro­ver­sial nov­el Hush—a final­ist for the 2011 Syd­ney Tay­lor Award for out­stand­ing book on the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence — under a pseu­do­nym…
Judy Brown
July 27, 2015
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Street-Cor­ner Soci­ol­o­gy in South Williamsburg

Ear­li­er this week, John Ben­ditt pon­dered whether or not Proust was Jew­ish and wrote about iden­ti­ty and writ­ing. The Boat­mak­er is his debut nov­el. He has been blog­ging…
John Ben­ditt
July 24, 2015
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On the Pass­ing of E. L. Doctorow

Post­ed by Evie Saphire-Bernstein“A book is not com­plete until it’s read. The reader’s mind flows through sen­tences as through a cir­cuit – it illu­mi­nates them and…
Evie Saphire-Bern­stein
July 22, 2015
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