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Nonfiction Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance Rebecca Rossen
Children’s Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education Norman H. Finkelstein
Essay Changing Times, Changing Letters, and Moving Forward Earlier this week, Liana Finck wrote about how she discovered A Bintel Brief and shared the history behind the column. Her graphic novel, A Bintel… Liana Finck April 18, 2014
Essay Finding a Story to Tell Earlier this week, Liana Finck shared the history behind the Forward’s Bintel Brief column. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco. She will be… Liana Finck April 17, 2014
Essay The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief Liana Finck is an emerging graphic novelist. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Brussels in 2009-10 and is a Six Points Fellow in New York. She publishes in The… Liana Finck April 14, 2014
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Nonfiction Jews & Diaspora Nationalism: Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe & The United States Simon Rabinovitch, ed.
Essay Yes, Virginia. There IS a Jewish President: Jews in Politics Earlier this week, Emily Stone wrote about Jews and Hollywood (have you taken her quiz “It’s True-ish, They’re Jewish!”?) and Jews and sports (have you taken her quiz… Emily Stone February 28, 2014
Nonfiction Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis Tim Townsend
