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Book­ish People
Susan Coll
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In the Pres­ence of Books

Jeff Deutsch
March 28, 2022
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
Jeff Deutsch
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Lau­ra Silverman
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Help­ful Resources for Authors Dur­ing COVID-19

JBC Staff
April 14, 2020
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A Book­shop in Berlin: The Redis­cov­ered Mem­oir of One Woman’s Har­row­ing Escape from the Nazis
Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
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Only in Israel

David Ehrlich has pub­lished two books of short sto­ries in Hebrew, 18 Blue and Tues­day and Thurs­day Morn­ings. His newest book, Who Will Die Last: Sto­ries of Life in Israel,…
David Ehrlich
July 2, 2013
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From Stanis­la­wow to Beach Music

Cliff Graubart is the author of The Curi­ous Vision of Sam­my Levitt and Oth­er Sto­ries (Mer­cer Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2012). He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
Cliff Graubart
January 7, 2013
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Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Trea­sures in SF

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterLook­ing for any of these?A his­to­ry of Jew­ish New Orleans. A 1970 copy of ​“Israel on $5 a Day.” Crime nov­els such as…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
August 12, 2011
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JBC in Jerusalem: Lud­wig May­er Books

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe Jew­ish Book Coun­cil team has had an amaz­ing first two days at Jerusalem Inter­na­tion­al Book Fair. We’ve spent time meet­ing…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
February 21, 2011

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