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    Inter­view: Susan Jane Gilman

    by Elise Coop­erThe Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman is a very enjoy­able and insight­ful book. Span­ning over sev­en­ty years, from the ear­ly 1900s…
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    August 19, 2014
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    What’s Your Book About?

    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro has writ­ten for the New York Times Mag­a­zine, Time, and The Believ­er. Her book, Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Cul­ture, is now…
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    August 19, 2014
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    It’s All About the Journey

    This week, Zoe Fish­man— the author of Sav­ing Ruth, Bal­anc­ing Acts, and her lat­est, Dri­ving Lessons— blogs for The Post­script on her own dri­ving lessons and the…
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    August 19, 2014
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    How I Came to Write Jew­ish Artists and the Bible in 20th-Cen­tu­ry America

    Ear­li­er this week, Saman­tha Baskind wrote about the artist Jack Levine and about some of the artists she inter­viewed for Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Artists.…
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    August 15, 2014
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    Post­ed by Nat BernsteinKodesh Press held a spe­cial Tu b’Av sale of some of their newest titles, includ­ing The Ter­ri­ble Beau­ty of the Evil Man, a mem­oir…
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    August 14, 2014
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    Find­ing Jack Levine

    Ear­li­er this week, Saman­tha Baskind wrote about some of the artists she inter­viewed for Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Artists. In the first chap­ter of her newest…
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