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Essay Finding a Place for Contemporary Jewish Literature in Jewish Day Schools Earlier this week, Josh Lambert wrote about the importance of exposing teenagers to great Jewish books. His most recent book is Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscenity, and… Josh Lambert February 5, 2015
Essay Out of Hiding Earlier this week, Richard Dean Rosen wrote about how he came to write his recently published book, Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors.… Richard Dean Rosen February 4, 2015
Essay The Path From Inspiration to Art This week, Joshua Max Feldman — the author of The Book of Jonah, just released in paperback from Picador—blogs for The Postscript on the mystery of inspiration, its… Joshua Max Feldman February 3, 2015
Essay The Importance of Exposing Teenagers to Great Jewish Books Josh Lambert is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts,… Josh Lambert February 3, 2015
Essay One Obstacle After Another Richard Dean Rosen has written many books, but none presented more challenges than Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors. It’s a book… Richard Dean Rosen February 2, 2015
Essay We’ve Got the Moves: Jewish Madness on Madison Avenue Earlier this week, Kerri P. Steinberg wrote about the Jewish women in advertising a in 1960s New York. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish Mad… Kerri P. Steinberg January 29, 2015