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    On Chaim Potok’s The Chosen

    Mol­ly Antopol is a recent Wal­lace Steg­n­er Fel­low and cur­rent Jones Lec­tur­er at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. She’s a recip­i­ent of the 5 Under 35 award from…
    Mol­ly Antopol
    February 4, 2014
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    Every Word Counts

    Ear­li­er this week, Joshua Max Feld­man wrote about why he chose to write a nov­el based on the Book of Jon­ah and who would be on his Jew­ish Mount Rush­more. His debut…
    Joshua Max Feldman
    January 31, 2014
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    Jew­ish Books Boom­ing in the Heart of Dixie

    by Dina Wein­steinMem­oirs, diaries, and col­lec­tions tell the South­ern Jew­ish story.It’s an expe­ri­ence that has gained pop­u­lar­i­ty based on the clas­sics of this…
    Dina Wein­stein
    January 30, 2014
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    Why the Book of Jonah?

    Ear­li­er this week, Joshua Max Feld­man wrote about who would be on his Jew­ish Mount Rush­more. His debut nov­el, The Book of Jon­ah, will be pub­lished on Feb­ru­ary 4th by…
    Joshua Max Feldman
    January 29, 2014
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    My Sto­ried Food

    This week, Randy Susan Mey­ers, author of The Com­fort of Lies and The Mur­der­er’s Daugh­ters, blogs for the JBC about a spe­cial (and deli­cious) offer for book…
    Randy Susan Meyers
    January 28, 2014
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    Woody Allen’s Jew­ish Soul

    Last year, David Evanier wrote about Julius and Ethel Rosen­berg and the best over­looked Amer­i­can Jew­ish nov­el­ist. He is writ­ing the biog­ra­phy of Woody Allen for St.…
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    January 28, 2014
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