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    Essay

    Tack­ling the ​“Sticky” Torah Por­tions in Lim­er­ick Form

    Ear­li­er this week, Joe Black wrote about how he came to write a book of lim­er­icks for every Torah por­tion. His newest book, There Once Was a Man From Canaan: The…
    Joe Black
    May 14, 2015
    Essay

    “Torah Lim­er­icks?” ​“Real­ly?” ​“Why?”

    Joe Black serves as Senior Rab­bi of Tem­ple Emanuel in Den­ver, CO. He also is an author of children’s books and a gui­tarist/singer-song­writer of orig­i­nal Jew­ish…
    Joe Black
    May 12, 2015
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Ques­tion of Tra­di­tion: Women Poets in Yid­dish, 1586 – 1987
    Kathryn Hellerstein
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    Jew­ish Text
    A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature
    Benjamin J. Segal
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    Psalms in a Trans­la­tion for Praying
    Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
    Essay

    Leah Gold­berg, Me, and the Search for a Title for my New Book

    Nora Gold​’s book, Fields of Exile, is the first nov­el about anti-Israelism on cam­pus. It was picked by The For­ward as one of ​“The 5 Jew­ish Books To Read in 2014,″ and…
    Nora Gold
    June 2, 2014
    Essay

    Drap­er and the Jewess

    Leah Uman­sky is the author of the Mad-Men inspired chap­book, Don Dreams and I Dream (Kat­ty­wom­pus Press 2014) and Domes­tic Uncer­tain­ties (Blazevox 2013). She curates…
    Leah Uman­sky
    April 8, 2014
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    Jew­ish Text
    The Song of Songs: The Hon­ey­bee in the Garden
    Debra Band
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    Non­fic­tion
    Agnon’s Moon­struck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
    Ilana Pardes
    Interview

    Inter­view: Howard Schwartz

    by Grace Stans­beryHoward Schwartz, three time win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, has recent­ly pub­lished his fifth vol­ume of poet­ry, The Library of Dreams.“There…
    Grace Stans­bery
    March 4, 2014
    Essay

    Les­bian-Fem­i­nist Midrash II: Stein and Sinclair

    Les­bian-fem­i­nist poet and schol­ar Julie R. Ensz­er has been blog­ging for The Pros­en­Peo­ple this week on poet­ry, loss, and the pio­neers of Amer­i­can Jew­ish les­bian…
    Julie R. Enszer 
    November 15, 2013
    Essay

    The Act of Writ­ing a Poem

    “Inte­ri­or mono­logue of the poet: the notes for the poem are the only poem” —from ​“Images for Godard” in The Will to Change (1971) by Adri­enne Rich The act of…
    Julie R. Enszer 
    November 14, 2013
    Essay

    Les­bian-Fem­i­nist Midrash: Nice Jew­ish Girls

    Les­bian-fem­i­nist poet and schol­ar Julie R. Ensz­er blogs this week for The Pros­en­Peo­ple on the sem­i­nal Jew­ish les­bian voic­es of the pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion and the…
    Julie R. Enszer 
    November 13, 2013
    Excerpt

    A Poem: The Quan­tum Rabbi

    A poem from the recent­ly pub­lished To Sing Away the Dark­est Days: Poems Re-imag­ined from Yid­dish Folk­songs (Hol­land Park Press), a new poet­ry col­lec­tion from…
    Nor­bert Hirschhorn
    August 28, 2013
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    A Poet­ics of Trau­ma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
    Ilana Szobel
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    Gertrud Kol­mar: A Lit­er­ary Life
    Dieter Kuhn; Linda Marianiello, trans.
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