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Essay

Salinger and the Art of “Jewish Zen”

Jerome Charyn

January 4, 2021

Going Rogue (at Hebrew School)

The Lost Shtetl

Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined

Jill Ross Nadler

Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir

Deborah A. Lott

Worse and Worse on Noah’s Ark

Leslie Kimmelman, Vivian Mineker (illus.)

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results

Excerpt

Excerpt — Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker

Barry Sonnenfeld

March 10, 2020

Have I Got A Cartoon For You!: The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons

The Passover Mouse

Joy Nelkin Wieder (auth.), Shahar Kober (illus.)  

Happiness, as Such

Natalia Ginzburg (auth.), Minna Proctor (trans.)

Fly Already

Goodnight Bubbala: A Joyful, Jewish, Not-So-Quiet Parody of Goodnight Moon

Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)

Some Unimaginable Animal

Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Dali, The Marx Brothers and the Greatest Movie Never Made