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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
Essay Some Thoughts on the Pew Survey of Jewish America Earlier this week, Michael Levin wrote about encountering the Hasidic enclave for the first time and the why and how of his art and research on Hasidism. He is… Michael Levin October 18, 2013
Nonfiction Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography M. M. Silver
Children’s Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet, illus.
Nonfiction Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side: Narratives Out of Time Catherine Rottenberg, ed.
