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    My Name is Yusha

    Josh Weil, author of the recent­ly pub­lished The Great Glass Sea, is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.Any run-in with…
    Josh Weil
    July 8, 2014
    Essay

    Gertrude Stein Reis­sues Focus­ing on the Artis­tic Process

    by Dina Wein­steinGertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was a rule-break­ing poet and writer, sup­port­er of the arts, and salon hostess.The Poet­ry Foun­da­tion describes Stein as…
    Dina Wein­stein
    June 30, 2014
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    Nov­els and the Art of the Mauritshuis

    Ear­li­er this week, Nina Sie­gal wrote about Ash­er Lev as a mod­el for Rem­brandt and being Jew­ish in Ams­ter­dam. Her newest nov­el, The Anato­my Les­son, is now…
    Nina Sie­gal
    June 27, 2014
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    Ash­er Lev as a Mod­el for Rembrandt

    Ear­li­er this week, Nina Sie­gal wrote about being Jew­ish in Ams­ter­dam. Her newest nov­el, The Anato­my Les­son, is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for…
    Nina Sie­gal
    June 25, 2014
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    On Writ­ing Jew­ish Books For Children

    by Leslie A. Kimmelman “Why do you write so many Jew­ish books for kids?” I’m asked frequently. The truth is, writ­ing Jew­ish books for kids was nev­er my inten­tion. Judaism…
    Leslie Kim­mel­man
    June 25, 2014
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    Down­ton Abbey Made Me Do It

    This week, JBC Net­work author Wendy Wax, the author of While We Were Watch­ing Down­ton Abbey, blogs for The Post­script on the inspi­ra­tion for writ­ing her newest…
    Wendy Wax
    June 24, 2014
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