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    Holo­caust Icons: Sym­bol­iz­ing the Shoah in His­to­ry and Memory
    Oren Baruch Stier
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    Grou­cho Marx: The Com­e­dy of Existence
    Lee Siegel
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    The Lit­er­a­ture of the Holocaust
    Alan Rosen
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    Roman Vish­ni­ac Rediscovered
    Maya Ben­ton
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    100 Years: Wis­dom From Famous Writ­ers on Every Year of Your Life
    Joshua Prager and Milton Glaswer
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    What I Learned About Woody

    David Evanier recent­ly authored an unof­fi­cial biog­ra­phy of Woody Allen, and will be shar­ing what he learned about the famed come­di­an and direc­tor all week as part of the…
    David Evanier
    November 30, 2015
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    Woody: The Biography
    David Evanier
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    Sur­vivors and Exiles: Yid­dish Cul­ture after the Holocaust
    Jan Schwarz
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    Writ­ing Across the Lin­guae Fran­cae of Mid­cen­tu­ry Jew­ish America

    Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinJew­ish Book Coun­cil is proud to announce the real­iza­tion of its project to cre­ate a dig­i­tized archive of the Jew­ish Book Annu­al in…
    Nat Bern­stein
    November 23, 2015
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    Inter­view: Gena Feith

    by Bec­ca KantorJew­ish Book Coun­cil sat down with artist Gena Fei­th to talk about the inspi­ration behind her Jew­ish Book Month poster, the con­nec­tion between writ­ing and…
    Bec­ca Kantor
    November 5, 2015
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    Alizée, 1939

    B.A. Shapiro
    November 3, 2015
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    Imag­in­ing Bud­dy & Holly

    The fol­low­ing is a redact­ed ver­sion of My Father’s Gui­tar and Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Sto­ries author Joseph Ski­bell orig­i­nal essay for Jew­ish Book…
    Joseph Ski­bell
    October 30, 2015
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    Go by the Country

    Ear­li­er this week, Rita Lakin shared what inspired her com­e­dy mys­tery nov­els about 80-year-olds solv­ing crime in Flori­da. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
    Rita Lakin
    October 21, 2015
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    The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Tele­vi­sion Writer
    Rita Lakin
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    Proust: The Search
    Benjamin Taylor
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    Francine Prose
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