Posted by Naomi Firestone
Remember back in November when we told you about David Plotz’s Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (
https://jewishbooks.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/32/)? Continue reading here.
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Posted by Naomi Firestone
Zoe Heller’s new book, The Believers, which tells the story of a liberal Jewish family living in Greenwich Village, will be published this week by HarperCollins. Continue reading here.
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Tagged Jewish Books, Nemesis, Philip Roth, The Believers, The Humbling, The New York Times, Zoe Heller
Posted by Naomi Firestone
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosua in the Dominican Republic. Continue reading here.
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Tagged Allen Wells, Dominican Haven, Dominican Republic Jews, Jewish Books, Marion A. Kaplan, Sosua, Tropoical Zion
Posted by Naomi Firestone
Your Yiddish online needs have been heard by the National Yiddish Book Center! Continue reading here.
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Tagged Aaron Lansky, Jewish Books, National Yiddish Book Center, Outwitting History
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Our fifth, and final, installment of this year’s “Words from our Finalists”…Dalia Sofer
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