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From the Journal A Simple Girl Growing up, Ayelet Tsabari grappled with Mizrahi stereotypes — and found inspiration in Ofra Haza, Israel’s iconic, Yemini singer. Ayelet Tsabari May 13, 2019 Recommended Reading Diverse Reads for Complicated Times As the culture of hate, fear, and mistrust of “the other” has increased, YA literature has stepped up to counteract it. Susan Kaplan Carlton May 13, 2019 Excerpt Little Rooster: A Story from David Bezmozgis’s New Collection Ten years after my grandfather died, I found myself sorting through a shallow plastic bin that held the accumulated documentation of his life. David Bezmozgis May 8, 2019 Interview—From the Journal Stories Are Immortal: A Conversation with Chloe Benjamin It’s no wonder that Jews, as a diasporic group, have such rich intellectual traditions: stories are portable and, dare I say, immortal. Karah Preiss May 6, 2019 Essay Twenty-one Notes on Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century’ Lucy Biederman May 3, 2019 Interview ‘Preachiness Doesn’t Make for Good Fiction’: Dana Czapnik and Sam Graham-Felsen in Conversation Two debut authors discuss their coming-of-age novels set in the gritty New York and Boston of the nineties. Sam Graham-Felsen, Dana Czapnik April 30, 2019 Pagination Previous page Newer Current page164 Next page Older Pagination First page 1 … Page162 Page163 Current page164 Page165 Page166 … Last page 516
From the Journal A Simple Girl Growing up, Ayelet Tsabari grappled with Mizrahi stereotypes — and found inspiration in Ofra Haza, Israel’s iconic, Yemini singer. Ayelet Tsabari May 13, 2019
Recommended Reading Diverse Reads for Complicated Times As the culture of hate, fear, and mistrust of “the other” has increased, YA literature has stepped up to counteract it. Susan Kaplan Carlton May 13, 2019
Excerpt Little Rooster: A Story from David Bezmozgis’s New Collection Ten years after my grandfather died, I found myself sorting through a shallow plastic bin that held the accumulated documentation of his life. David Bezmozgis May 8, 2019
Interview—From the Journal Stories Are Immortal: A Conversation with Chloe Benjamin It’s no wonder that Jews, as a diasporic group, have such rich intellectual traditions: stories are portable and, dare I say, immortal. Karah Preiss May 6, 2019
Essay Twenty-one Notes on Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century’ Lucy Biederman May 3, 2019
Interview ‘Preachiness Doesn’t Make for Good Fiction’: Dana Czapnik and Sam Graham-Felsen in Conversation Two debut authors discuss their coming-of-age novels set in the gritty New York and Boston of the nineties. Sam Graham-Felsen, Dana Czapnik April 30, 2019
