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Ear­li­er this week, Roger Horowitz shared mem­o­ries of his grand­moth­er Bertie Schwartz, the first woman pres­i­dent of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. The author of Kosher USA: How…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinImage: Edel Rodriguez, from Fas­ci­nat­ing: The Life of Leonard NimoyEach year pro­duces a fresh crop of fic­tion, non­fic­tion, poet­ry, and…

Roger Horowitz is the author of Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Oth­er Tales of Mod­ern Food. Fol­low­ing up Elis­sa Altman’s writ­ing about Treyf last week, Roger is…

Bec­caNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilli­gan is about a fam­i­ly of Irish Jews over three gen­er­a­tions, writ­ten by a young writer who became…

with Sophie SiegelImage: Beowulf SheehanAnna Solomon’s lat­est nov­el, Leav­ing Lucy Pear, delves into rela­tions between rich and poor, Jew­ish and Irish in Pro­hi­bi­tion-era…

Ear­li­er this week, Elis­sa Alt­man shared how her mem­oir Treyf: My Life as an Unortho­dox Out­law found a recep­tive audi­ence in coastal Maine. Elis­sa is guest…