This week Bob Goldfarb, a regular reviewer for Jewish Book World, is blogging about the International Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem May 2-6.
Sarah Blau, moderating a panel called “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,” called attention to an apparent paradox: the farther removed we are from the historical Holocaust, there more writing there seems to be. Continue reading here.
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