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Essay D. A. Mishani and the Mystery of the Hebrew Detective D. A. Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, editor, and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His first detective novel, The Missing… D. A. Mishani May 27, 2013
Essay Joanna Hershon on Assimilation and Romanticizing the Past Earlier this week, Joanna Hershon wrote about an insult and a memorial service she attended for a friend’s father. Her new novel, A Dual… Joanna Hershon May 24, 2013
Essay Joanna Hershon, an Insult, and a Very Jewish Conversation Earlier this week, Joanna Hershon wrote about a memorial service she attended for a friend’s father. Her new novel, A Dual Inheritance, was… Joanna Hershon May 22, 2013
Essay Joanna Hershon and the Memorial Joanna Hershon’s most recent novel, A Dual Inheritance, was published earlier this month by Ballantine Books. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Joanna Hershon May 20, 2013
Essay Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation In her first two installments of “Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear,” Randy Susan Meyers wrote about an essay in which the writer met with an elderly former SS… Randy Susan Meyers May 17, 2013
Essay Ben Lerner: Working Against the Image of the Conventional Novel We prompted this year’s Sami Rohr Prize awardees to write about “how they came to write their book.” Over the next several weeks, we’ll share their responses. Today, Ben… Ben Lerner May 14, 2013
