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Mem­o­ry Games

Sasha Abram­sky is the author of The House of Twen­ty Thou­sand Books, a mem­oir explor­ing his grand­par­ents’ lives through their vast lit­er­ary col­lec­tion in Lon­don.…
Sasha Abram­sky
August 31, 2015
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Mus­cle Beach

Excerpt­ed from On the Move: A Life by Oliv­er Sacks.When I final­ly made it to New York in June of 1961, I bor­rowed mon­ey from a cousin and bought…
Oliv­er Sacks
August 30, 2015
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Excerpt: Sis­ters in Law

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Lin­da Hirshman
August 27, 2015
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August 2015 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

Post­ed by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has been read­ing for the month of August!Mimi“This month, I’m read­ing The Last Sum­mer at Chelsea…
JBC Staff
August 27, 2015
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Secret of Chabad

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinVet­er­an Chabad emis­sary to Yor­ba Lin­da and sit­ting pres­i­dent of the Rab­bini­cal Coun­cil of Orange Coun­ty and Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia Rab­bi…
Nat Bern­stein
August 26, 2015
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Diana Blet­ter’s Top 11 Jew­ish Quotes for Writers

Ear­li­er this week, Diana Blet­ter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jew­ish writer, but a Jew­ish woman writer. Her nov­el A Remark­able Kind­ness is…
Diana Blet­ter
August 26, 2015
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