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News “An Age of Creative Readers Makes for Literature Which Is Immortal” Posted by Nat Bernstein.Fifteen years after Fanny Goldstein established the first Jewish Book Week at the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library in 1925,… Nat Bernstein November 9, 2015
Essay Of Lutis and Looters: History as the Sister of Fiction Earlier this week, Parnaz Foroutan wrote about her childhood determination to learn English after seeing a girl who looked just like her on the cover of Anne… Parnaz Foroutan August 19, 2015
Nonfiction Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case Monda Halpern
Nonfiction Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps Kim Wünschmann
Interview Interview: Joseph Kanon by Elise CooperLeaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon is a gripping historical thriller. The book’s plot takes place in Berlin four years after the end of World War II.… Elise Cooper August 11, 2015
Essay Israel Then and Now: 6 Big Changes Since 1994 (Part I) Jessamyn Hope is the author of Safekeeping, which has received critical acclaim from The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, and Tablet Magazine. She will be blogging… Jessamyn Hope August 3, 2015
Nonfiction The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880 – 1940 Paul Lerner
Essay Why I Write Historical Fiction Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the novel Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln and A Master Plan for Rescue as well as a memoir The Russian Word for Snow. She is… Janis Cooke Newman July 13, 2015
Essay Dry Goods Merchant and Freedom Fighter: Samuel Fleishman of Marianna, FL Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bayou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mississippi town menaced… Sabra Waldfogel July 9, 2015
Essay The Jews of Mound Bayou Sabra Waldfogel writes historical fiction about Southern Jews and African Americans in slavery and freedom. Her most recent book, Freedom’s Island, about an all-black… Sabra Waldfogel July 6, 2015
Recommended Reading Capturing a Vanished World: Last Folio by Yuri Dojc & Katya Krausova Posted by Becca KantorLast Folio: A Photographic Memory offers a haunting glimpse into the traces of vanished Jewish life in Slovakia, the first country to… Becca Kantor July 2, 2015
