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    Short Stories

    Cover of Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
    Chil­dren’s
    Zlateh the Goat and Oth­er Stories
    Isaac Bashevis Singer; Maurice Sendak, illus.
    Essay

    Cast­ing Off

    Stu­art Nadler​’s first book, The Book of Life, is now avail­able. He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.For me, the year has always…
    Stu­art Nadler
    September 26, 2011
    Cover of Devora in Exile: Stories
    Fic­tion
    Devo­ra in Exile: Stories
    Barbara Cherne
    Cover of Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories
    Fic­tion
    Yom Kip­pur in Ams­ter­dam: Stories
    Max­im D. Shrayer
    Cover of Is It Good For The Jews?: More Stories From The Old Country And The New
    Fic­tion
    Is It Good For The Jews?: More Sto­ries From The Old Coun­try And The New
    Adam Biro; Catherine Tihanyi, trans.
    Cover of The Miracle of the Golden Dove and Other Stories
    Chil­dren’s
    The Mir­a­cle of the Gold­en Dove and Oth­er Stories
    Genendel Krohn; Tova Katz, illus.
    Cover of Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
    Fic­tion
    Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mys­tery and Suspense
    Joyce Carol Oates
    Cover of Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging
    Fic­tion
    Promised Lands: New Jew­ish Amer­i­can Fic­tion on Long­ing and Belonging
    Derek Rubin, ed.
    Cover of The Essential Jewish Stories
    Fic­tion
    The Essen­tial Jew­ish Stories
    Seymour Rossel
    Cover of 3:10 to Boca and Other Meshugeh Tales of the Yiddish West
    Fic­tion
    3:10 to Boca and Oth­er Meshugeh Tales of the Yid­dish West
    Zane Greyberg
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: The Book of Life

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterCom­ing in Sep­tem­ber from Rea­gan Arthur Books/​Back Bay Books: The Book of Life (Stu­art Nadler):
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    May 19, 2011
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    Look­ing for­ward to 2011: Qui­et Americans

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterJBC friend, author, and blog­ger Eri­ka Drei­fus just launched the web­site for her first work of fic­tion, Qui­et AmericansA high-rank­ing…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    August 20, 2010
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    Jonathan Papernick’s Defense of the Short Story

    Jonathan Paper­nick is the author of the new­ly pub­lished col­lec­tion of short sto­ries There Is No Oth­er. He recent­ly wrote to us with the below piece on why short…
    Jonathan Paper­nick
    August 6, 2010
    Essay

    Con­vert­ibles in the Snow

    Jen­nifer Traig, author of Well Enough Alone: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of My Hypochon­dria, is guest-blog­ging all week for MyJew­ish­Learn­ing and…
    Jen­nifer Traig
    September 22, 2009
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