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Bar­bara Andrews

Bar­bara Andrews holds a Mas­ters in Jew­ish Stud­ies from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, has been an adult Jew­ish edu­ca­tion instruc­tor, and works in the cor­po­rate world as a pro­fes­sion­al adult educator.
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The Poet­ics of Agnon from Syra­cuse UP

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIf you’re a Jew­ish Book World sub­scriber and enjoyed our 26:3 (Fall 2008) fea­ture on S.Y. Agnon, one of the fore­most Hebrew…
Bar­bara Andrews
April 22, 2009

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