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Essay

Salinger and the Art of ​“Jew­ish Zen”

Jerome Charyn
January 4, 2021
Fic­tion
Going Rogue (at Hebrew School)
Casey Bre­ton
Fic­tion
The Lost Shtetl
Max Gross
Chil­dren’s
Such a Library: A Yid­dish Folk­tale Re-Imagined
Jill Ross Nadler
Non­fic­tion
Don’t Go Crazy With­out Me: A Tragi­com­ic Memoir
Deb­o­rah A. Lott
Chil­dren’s
Worse and Worse on Noah’s Ark
Leslie Kimmelman, Vivian Mineker (illus.)
Non­fic­tion
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
Bess Kalb
Non­fic­tion
Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results
Josh Gondelman
Excerpt

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

Bar­ry Sonnenfeld
March 10, 2020
Visu­al Arts
Have I Got A Car­toon For You!: The Moment Mag­a­zine Book of Jew­ish Cartoons
Bob Mankoff
Chil­dren’s
The Passover Mouse
Joy Nelkin Wieder (auth.), Shahar Kober (illus.)  
Fic­tion
Hap­pi­ness, as Such
Natalia Ginzburg (auth.), Minna Proctor (trans.)
Fic­tion
Fly Already
Etgar Keret
Chil­dren’s
Good­night Bub­bala: A Joy­ful, Jew­ish, Not-So-Qui­et Par­o­dy of Good­night Moon
Sheryl Haft (auth.), Jill Weber (illus.)
Poet­ry
Some Unimag­in­able Animal
David Eben­bach
Non­fic­tion
Giraffes on Horse­back Sal­ad: Dali, The Marx Broth­ers and the Great­est Movie Nev­er Made
Josh Frank

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