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    Sasha Abram­sky has been blog­ging here all week on The ProsenPeople’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series. Ear­li­er this week, he wrote about the con­ti­nu­ity of read­ing across Jew­ish…
    Sasha Abram­sky
    September 3, 2015
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    Mem­o­ry Games

    Sasha Abram­sky is the author of The House of Twen­ty Thou­sand Books, a mem­oir explor­ing his grand­par­ents’ lives through their vast lit­er­ary col­lec­tion in Lon­don.…
    Sasha Abram­sky
    August 31, 2015
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    Diana Blet­ter’s Top 11 Jew­ish Quotes for Writers

    Ear­li­er this week, Diana Blet­ter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jew­ish writer, but a Jew­ish woman writer. Her nov­el A Remark­able Kind­ness is…
    Diana Blet­ter
    August 26, 2015
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    A Scribe Among Scribes

    Diana Blet­ter is the author of A Remark­able Kind­ness and lives in Israel. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.I was…
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    August 24, 2015
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    Of Lutis and Loot­ers: His­to­ry as the Sis­ter of Fiction

    Ear­li­er this week, Par­naz Foroutan wrote about her child­hood deter­mi­na­tion to learn Eng­lish after see­ing a girl who looked just like her on the cov­er of Anne…
    Par­naz Foroutan
    August 19, 2015
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    In Search of The­o­log­i­cal Modesty

    by William Liss-LevinsonI wrote In Search of The­o­log­i­cal Mod­esty: Bib­li­cal Lessons to offer some per­spec­tives that may enable read­ers to re-con­cep­tu­al­ize…
    William Liss-Levin­son
    August 18, 2015
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